Raphael was shaken awake at dawn, the sky was still dark from the clouds of the storm.

He groaned lowly as he heard Juniper.

"Wake up you troll," she shook him harder.

"Alright," he grunted. "Alright," he pushed at her hands that slapped his arm.

"What?" he husked as he sat up. He squinted at her in the dark, Juniper's hair was all over the place as she frowned.

"The power went out," she groaned quietly.

He glanced over at his phone, tapping it to see it was only five in the morning.

"Why do you need power, it's early?" he grumbled quietly.

She huffed and laid across the bottom of his bed, "I was going to shower and there's no hot water. I thought you would want to know."

Raphael laid back on his pillow with a grunt, "Happens all the time on this damn island. Backup generators should kick on soon."

But the shadow demon was barely listening.

Juniper laid by his feet, curling up as he got comfortable once again. Her soft snores sounded.

He grabbed an extra blanket and threw it on top of her before he fell back asleep.

~

At nine, Raphael was dressed and walking down the steps to where he smelled food.

Juniper was sat on the island eating eggs and a bagel, when she saw him she gestured to leftover eggs and toast.

He nodded in thanks, happy to see the power came back on while they slept.

"Why were you up so early?" he made himself a plate.

"Couldn't sleep," she stabbed more eggs onto her fork. She seemed a little tense, not looking his way.

She was embarrassed she fell asleep in his bed.

Deciding to change the subject, "I need your help with something."

Juniper's brows rose in surprise, finally looking at him. He had on a charcoal gray work suit, a black shirt underneath the jacket.

"Help with what?" Her gray eyes trailed down his form, the suit was fitted for his large body. And it accentuated every inch of it.

Raphael smirked a little to himself, allowing his own eyes to her smooth legs dangling from the counter.

After a beat of silence he finally forced himself to answer, "I need names and faces of who to look out for. I can have my guys scope out who's already on the island and who to keep out."

Without another word, she pushed herself off of the counter and sauntered away. With a furrowed brow, Raphael got up to follow her.

Her-his- bedroom door was left open and he walked in just as she bent over in her bag. His eyes darted go the bright pink underwear she had on and he bit the inside of his cheek so hard he tasted blood.

Her cunt was practically presented to him as the swell of her asscheeks swallowed the flimsy underwear.

"Fuck," he hissed and turned around to face the opposite way.

She peaked back at him in confusion before pulling out a hefty file. She turned to saunter over, as she passed him she slapped the file against his chest with a smirk.

He quickly caught it, grumbling as he trailed after her back to the kitchen.

He began going through it as she lead the way.

He saw several photos taken candidly, some from afar and some from mere yards away. "You got these yourself?"

"Mhm," she hummed while grabbing some strawberries. She bit into one as she watched him carefully.

"If you could get this close then why not kill them?"

Juniper crooked her jaw, "Tried that. They keep coming, it's like a witches coven except they let anybody and everybody in. It's more of an I hate Juniper club now."

"And why exactly do they hate you?" he slipped in casually as he flipped through the photos. He took out his phone and sent the pictures to Phoenix to run through their database.

When silence followed, he glanced up.

She raised a brow at him as if to ask, really?

"It'll take more than that, Raphael." She cleaned up the mess from breakfast.

He frowned while sitting down, looking through the information gathered in front of him.

Suddenly she pushed the stuff out of the way, forcing his eyes onto her. He sighed quietly and gave her his full attention.

"This reason that they have is bullshit, okay Raph? And if I were to tell you, you'd look at me different. Before-Before we've even started anything," Juniper forced the words out. She took a shaky breath, trying to keep her voice even.

Raphael clenched his jaw, it was eating him alive at what it could possibly be that had Juniper so shaken up.

He reached his hand closer to hers, staring at her own that was now next to his.

She too looked at his own, her fingers twitching towards his.

Finally swallowing hard, both of them reached for the others hand at the same time. Juniper watched as their fingers thread together, her dark skin contrasting against his tan skin.

"I want to take you somewhere, to see someone who might be able to help."

Juniper flipped his hand over to trace her fingers over his veins.

"You have big hands," she observed with her finger dragging along his blue vein.

Raphael smirked at her, her face dropped in unamusement.

"Immature," she shook her head but hid her smile poorly.

He admired her for a moment before she focused back on what he mentioned.

"When would we go?"

"They'll be in town next week. For now, come with me to one of my offices. I didn't see the witch that saw your future in here. We're going to look for information on her."

Juniper perked up as her grip tightened on his large hand, "I can leave without you flipping the fuck out?"

Raphael glared, "I didn't flip the fuck out."

"You definitely did," she sang as she let go of his hand to trot to her room.

He quickly stood to defend himself, following her once again.

"I did not flip out!" he called before she shut the door in his face abruptly.

Raphael cursed and grumbled as he stomped back downstairs to wait for her.

~

Juniper tugged her blown out blue hair into a high ponytail, her boots clacked against the floor.

Raphael glanced up as he bit into an apple, quietly choking at the small dress she wore.

It was a brown dress, darker than her own chocolate skin. It was thin and reached barely to her mid thigh, thin straps at her arms before cut outs connected to longer sleeves.

Her tits were confined tightly in the dress, Raphael snapped his mouth shut.

"The fuck are you wearing?" he snarled.

"What the fuck I want to wear," she snapped back with bite to her words. Juniper continued to herself, "Askin' me dumbass fucking questions."

Raphael growled with narrowed eyes, "We're going to my office."

"And I want to wear a dress!"

"Where's the rest of it!"

"Shut the fuck up, Raphael," she waved him off as she bent to grab a water. Almost flashing him in the process.

He threw his hands up before slapping a palm over his eyes.

"Does it bother you if other people see me in this?" she hummed mockingly while opening the bottle. She glanced over her shoulder at him.

A low rumble sounded, he glowered at her.

"So what if it does?"

With a shrug of her shoulder she quirked her lips down in amusement, "Nothing it's just cute. In like... a man type of way."

Raphael rubbed a hand down his face, dragging his skin down exaggeratedly.

"I'm not changing. And if you keep arguing it won't be cute it'll be gross."

He gaped, opening and closing his mouth to try and find a response. She continued on, grabbing a set of keys. As she passed him on the way to the garage she patted his chest hard.

When he got himself together, he slowly walked to where she was sat waiting for him in the car.

As he closed his car door and she went to open her mouth, he held up a finger.

"Not a word."

"I was going to tell you your fly is down."

With a grunt he glanced down, his fly was not down.

"Made you look."

Her face was completely straight as he frustratedly started the car.

"You're ridiculous."

Juniper smirked, "I'm fucking funny though."

"To a child maybe."

She side glanced him, still smirking. "You definitely laughed just a little bit."

"I definitely didn't."

Resting her chin on top of her hand, she leaned forward over the console to stare at him. After he glanced back and forth from her to the road he couldn't help a quirk to his lips.

"A-ha!" Pointing to his face she sat back in triumph.

Shaking his head, "Am I going to hear mediocre comedy for the rest of my life?"

Juniper perked up at the sentence- the rest of his life hm?

At the look on her face he paused, heat creeping up his neck in embarrassment. "Shut up," he growled quietly.

"Shut up for just right now or the rest of our lives?" Her tone was mocking even if she felt giddy on the inside.

He swatted at her playfully to which she squealed and pushed herself to the farthest part of the car.

They both batted at each other while he drove and she quickly shoved herself into the back seat, ass in the air before she fell onto the car floor.

"Juniper knock it off!" he grumbled as he looked at her through the rear view mirror.

"Focus on the fucking road idiot!" she hissed while shoving her dress down and trying to fix her hair.

They both mumbled indignantly even if both their cheeks were hot.

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i laughed writing the laugh scene lmao here's a surprise update in celebration of me getting two more chapters written last night!!

how do we feel about their chemistry and dynamic so far? OH and what do we think they're after Juniper for???