A/N: Song, "Youth," by Daughter.

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Rainey 

"For the last time! I'm not a fucking rogue, you wankers!" 

The Mountain Oasis Pack soldiers ignored my screams as the tallest one of them slammed the door of the cell closed. They walked away chuckling and chattering. 

At least they had been nice enough to not damage my cochlear implant--Not that there was much to hear here, besides the dripping of the water and the squeaks of the rats. I shuddered. 

The stench was overwhelming. I fell down my knees on the cold damp floor and closed my eyes. I sighed and shifted my weight, resting my forehead on my knees and hugging my legs. Why did these things always happened to me?

My wolf was getting uneasy. We hadn't been in contact for so long. She had refused to talk to me after he had rejected me. As if that had been my fault. Who wouldn't get uneasy in this situation, though? 

Now, I blocked her out. It had been ten years since the last time I shifted. I wasn't a werewolf anymore. I was a human. 

I ran my hands through my hair. Sweat had started dripping from my forehead. My jeans and white t-shirt were ruined and I had lost my shoes long ago in the struggle. How was I supposed to know that I was meeting another werewolf? These idiots didn't listen to reason.

I had traveled all the way here to interview someone for my new book. As usual, I had ended up being locked up for trespassing pack boundaries without authorization. All my senses were of a human now! How could I have known that this was a werewolf town? Put a sign or something for fuck's sake.

Welcome to Mountain Oasis. By the way, everyone here is a werewolf! Rogues beware. "Pfft."

Okay, maybe that would be way too on the nose. I burst into laughter, because why not? I wasn't getting water soon, so why waste tears? I leaned down on my back, still laughing.  At least my special cell in the Blood Moon pack used to have a bed.

"Hahaha... Thanks, Moon Goddess for all the blessings... You bitch!"

"You know, from all the hallucinations and delusions I've had, this is by far the cruelest."

I gasped and sat up. You had to be kidding me. The voice had come from a cell many cells down the hall. I could have recognized it anywhere. 

My wolf was fighting to take control. For the first time in years, her voice was clear in my mind. Mate, she repeated like a chant. Maybe, I was hallucinating.

"Felicity?"

Alexander... My stomach twisted in knots. Hearing him say that dreaded name once again was almost too painful to bear. That was the last thing he had ever said to me. "Goodbye, Felicity." I couldn't live with that name after he had tainted it like that.

"Shut up. That's not my name anymore."

"Are you real?"

Real? Of course I was real. What was it with him? Wait...

"What are you doing in a dungeon? You're supposed to be leading a pack."

He laughed. "What do you think that happened?"

How could I know? After he had rejected me and kicked me out of the pack to take some other girl and claim her as his mate, I had given up being a werewolf. I had taken wolfsbane for years so that I could appease my wolf side. I cut off all ties with the werewolf community and even left the country.

"Felicity..."

"Don't call me that! Dammit!"

He whimpered. The pain latched to his voice made my heart hurt. I appreciated having these bars stopping me from going to him. 

How weak I was becoming. Nothing had changed. He had still rejected me for her.

"What should I call you, then?"

"Don't call me at all. Pretend I'm not here." Why wouldn't he shut up already? He was making this way more painful than it should be.

"How could I ignore my mate's presence?"

I scoffed. "Your mate is Karen. You said so yourself."

"Karen?... Oh right, Karen... I rejected her. She must be with her real mate. He's an Alpha from a Northern pack."

What the hell? He had publicly denied that I was his mate and claimed her, just to reject her and send her off with her mate? He had always been crazy. With a father like James Hunter, it wasn't surprising. But, even to me, who had grown up by his side, this made zero sense.

"Felici--"

"I'm Rainey. Don't use that other name ever again."

"Rainey? It doesn't suit you. You're always smiling. Felicity is perfect for you."

I used to smile all the time. It had been a while since I could smile honestly. Half of my soul would always be missing. I didn't want a name that meant happiness. Rainey meant queen and I was a queen. I laid down on the floor and stared at the dark gray ceiling. Maybe if I didn't answer, he would shut up.

" Fe--I mean Rainey. Are you still there?"

I rolled my eyes. He could always smell my scent... Unless he was too weak. In such case, I would gladly take the opportunity and kick him in the bollocks.

He chuckled humorlessly. "You couldn't ever be here anyway, not after everything I did to protect you."

Protect me? Was he out of his mind? He called breaking my heart and abandoning me protect me? After everything we had gone through together? He was the reason I almost became deaf. I laughed. What a twat he was.

"Felicity, I love you."

"Oh my gosh. Shut up! You don't get to tell me that now!"   

He loved me. Yeah, right. He was nothing but a pathological liar. I clenched my hands into fists. He was lowest than vermin. The life of that cockroach that walked by the bars was way more valuable than his. I hated him with every fiber of my body.

"You came back!"

Come back? I never left. Had he gone mad?--madder?

"I have to tell you this before you disappear." He rushed through his words as if he had to let everything out as quickly as possible. "The only reason I claimed and rejected Karen was to hide the fact that you were my mate."

I knew that much. He never wanted me. I used to think that he loved me, at least like a best friend until he transformed into a monster. A beast whose only purpose was to hurt me.

"After you almost died, I promised that I would protect you, and the safest place was as far away from me as possible. You were too weak."

Gosh, thanks for the vote of confidence.

"I rejected you, thinking that my wolf would disappear, but he instead went feral."

Suits you right, you arsehole.

"And I might not be in the best mental state."

He was talking to what he assumed was a hallucination. Why did it feel that "not being in his best mental state" was an understatement?

"Fe--"

"It's Rainey. For fuck's sake!"

"You never used to swear."

Did he think that I was that eighteen-years-old girl that he had literally dumped on the curb with a bag of clothes and a credit card?

"Pfft. It's been ten years, you bloody idiot."

"Where have you been? You just disappeared six years ago."

So, I had been right. He had been checking on me, like a sick stalker. At least I got to travel the world while hiding from him.

"Take a wild guess..."

"Mmm... England?"

"No, in Tontitown, Arkansas. Can't you hear the accent?"

"Was that sarcasm?"

I closed my eyes. I had had enough of listening to him. I would rest until someone in this pack realized that I wasn't a rogue. That might take a few weeks. There probably wasn't anyone with half a working neuron in here.

"Rayne?"

It was Rainey. He was like a small child. If I ignored him enough, he would bug off.

"Raynie?"

My eyes flew open. Great, he had forgotten the name already. I sighed. Could this get any worse?

It started raining outside and water began leaking into the cell. I jumped to my feet. My whole body trembled, not because of the cold, but because of the thunders. Whenever misfortune knocked on my door, it had always come with thunders, and this was no exception. 

Thanks, Moon Goddess.

"I wish I could hug you now and chase your fears away."

Of course he remembered. Since I was five, the only place where I could find comfort was in his arms. Ugh, my life story was so sappy and cliché.

"Raney."

"It's Rainey!"

"Hey... Are you really here?"

"Oh, Allie. I'm sorry, but no. I'm a ghost. Ra--Felicity died."

A furious growl echoed through the room followed by a crash and a bam, whatever that meant. I snapped my eyes shut and covered my ears. The thunders wouldn't stop either. I rested my back against the wall. 

The water reached my ankles and the drizzle soaked my clothes. I took deep breaths, which only filled my lungs with the acidic stench that pervaded the air. My wolf wouldn't stop howling.

The harsh clanking of metal drew closer and closer.

A black shadow slowly approached my cell. As soon as his brilliant golden eyes locked with mine the dark brown wolf let out a breath and crumbled down to the floor. He shifted into a man that I could barely recognize. 

His whole body was covered with old and new scars. His skin was colored with different shades of purple and green on his back and face. His hair was long and it looked like it hadn't be washed in years. His overgrown beard made him look at least ten years older. And, oh, Moon Goddess! He was so thin.

"Ha... You're okay. I'm so happy." His eyes fluttered closed. 

My feet moved on their own. Before I could stop myself, I was kneeling before him. I brushed his cheeks with my fingers through the bars, and his lips curved into a small smile. The damned sparks were still here after all these years.