Mate ...s ?!?!

[Jaxson’s POV]

Something was going on with our little Omega and the way he was curling in on himself only sent my worry to an all-time high. He was crying because we had not told him what was going on and now this. It was like he was twitching in his sleep but his tears were breaking me. Jace and I tried to get him calmed again but nothing we did was helping.

I went to reach for him and Orion, snarled at me, throwing a pillow at me with a lot of force. Well, isn’t someone pissed off. Orion has never acted like this before. I knew he was upset but I didn’t think he was this angry with us, and that thought was tearing at me. We had done the very thing we swore to him that we wouldn’t do to him. We had pushed him aside in that moment and I could read it on his face before he had curled in on himself.

We had really done something to hurt our Mate. Something neither of us had realized we had done until it was too late.

I growled angrily at that thought as Jace and I were watching Orion. “Orion,” I called out softly, trying to reach for him again, this time much slower than last time.

“Mommy!!” Orion suddenly screamed at the top of his lungs, tears soaking his face, snot running down his nose. He looked like a child in that moment.

I gasped a soft breath, he had finally slipped into his ‘little’ space, as Cassie had called it. This was the child Orion. We had been trying to get him here for days the gentle way but nope not the two of us idiots!! FUCK!!

“Orion, sweetie, calm down. Everything is all right.” Jace cooed to him trying to get closer but Orion wasn’t having it. He was throwing a temper tantrum and I couldn’t even try to be angry with him for it. He was upset, angry, hurt and disoriented beyond what should have happened. I could completely understand why he was throwing his tantrum but this was going out of control a little.

“No!! I want MOMMY CASSIE!!!” he screamed out kicking his feet on the floor, swiping at Jace as he tried to get closer.

That was something we couldn’t do at the moment. Cassie was nowhere to be found at the moment. “I’m sorry sweetheart but mommy Cassie isn’t here right now. She would want us to take care of you while she takes care of her errand.” I said holding Jace back as I changed the tone of my voice. I was going for the ‘dad’ voice. Kind and soft but firm and unmoving.

Orion’s head snapped up to look at me and instantly I could tell he was in his ‘little’ headspace. The gloss that covered his beautiful blue eyes that were now a blue green, telling me that Orion was not the only one to slip into this headspace. Rain did too.

Orion sniffled and held his arms out to me, making grabby hands toward me. I chuckled and moved to pick him up, but was shocked when Orion kicked me right in the gut.

Screaming at the top of his lungs, “MOMMY CASSIE!!!!!!” he screamed out thrashing on the bed, punching and kicking anything he could. It was a mess.

“Orion, stop it!” Jace called out, trying to copy me in an attempt to get our little Mate to at least stop throwing his little hissy fit and listen to us again.

Orion stopped for only a few seconds before he began wailing again, just like a spoiled three-year-old. Suddenly, the bedroom door flew open and our own mother came running into the room, a cross look on her face as she looked around her.

“What in the name of the Goddess is going on here!?” she demanded glaring at both me and Jace.

“Where’s Cassie?!?!” Jace and I shouted together, as I pulled mom out of the way of the now air-born table lamp. Our little Omega had one hell of a temper and a right arm when it came to throwing shit.

“In the infirmary, she had gone after Cilla and Justin. Your father found her bloody about four miles south of the cells.” Mom said as she came up to Jace and I. She was looking at Orion seriously, but her eyes showed a knowing look, like she knew what was going on with our little Mate and we were getting angry that we were the only ones that couldn’t help him!

“Is she ok?” Jace asked as we watched Orion closely.

He was slowly settling down, as we spoke about Cassie. He was listening to what mom was saying. “She will be just fine by the morning.” She replied as she made her way over to Orion who was now silently crying. Jace and I tried to stop her but she shooed us away as she sat next to Orion. “What’s wrong little star?” she asked, her voice filled with a sort of cooing sound. Just like a mother.

Orion looked up at her, his face scrunching in anger before falling into full on tears. He had wanted to be angry about mom’s closeness but she just soothed him. She held her arms out for him and Orion practically jumped into her arms, burying his face into her shoulder letting his tears fall. Jace and I looked at each other, both of us were disappointed we hadn’t been the ones that had gotten him calm. We had only made it worse. How did mom just know how to soothe him? What had we been doing so wrong? Why were we the only ones that couldn’t get him to stop crying!!

“I-I w-want m-mommy C-Cassie,” Orion choked out, his voice muffled by our mom’s shoulder. He sounded so sad and there had been nothing we did to get him to get to this point with us. Orion had pushed us away and screamed t us. He had practically attacked us.

“Oh, sweetie she will be just fine and you will be able to see her tomorrow.” She crooned, slowly rocking Orion back and forth. Just like Cassie did that first night they were here. It was like something they just knew to do with him. “Why were you so upset little star? You looked like you were very angry, momma Scar wants to know why.” She said in a hushed tone, her voice quiet and lulling to the ear. Even the two of us were becoming calmer from the sound of her voice.

Orion sniffed and pulled his head out of our mom’s neck. His little hands reaching for her, “I didn’t want to be left alone and I was. I thought I was going to be left again and I don’t understand why they left me alone.” He whimpered out, breaking me right there.

He thought we were going to leave him and never come back. He was so upset about just that one thought it had caused him to regress in age with a flash. Just like that first night it had been like a light switch that had been flipped. Jace and I still loved him beyond words and we knew we would never leave him. However, we were facing a problem. Neither one of us had been able to calm him down. That was not something that boded well for our relationship. If he didn’t accept us when he was like this then he would never truly accept us as his Mates.