Orion

Imagine waking up, and not getting even a moment of peace before you feel like your entire universe has been ripped from you. That's how I feel, a black hole of nothing but anger, fear, and worry.

As I climbed out of bed, I thought maybe Lilith had just been up early, but I know that almost never happens. After not finding her in the house or outside panic set in. Had she run? I've always thought she might. But she'd at the very least take her wallet and car. Her phone was off. I'd studied practically every inch of her house in my free time and know she's taken a gun and cash with her. She was smart enough to know I could trace her car or her cards so maybe she is running. Had Carter and I over done it? Everything seemed fine last night.

"What the fuck are you doing?" It's a wonder how he'd slept through me practically ransacking her house. "Lilith is gone." I growled, pulling on my jacket. That got him up. He didn't even ask any questions as he quickly dressed and followed me. "Where are you going?" He asked as I went out the door with my keys. "To the only person who would know where Lilith is if she's run from us."

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My heart hammered in my chest as I banged on Spencer's door. I've never felt so out of control. Eventually the door swung open and I immediately wrapped my hand around his throat, I couldn't help it, it was an instinct. Maya started screaming, but it was in one ear and out the other. "Where the fuck is she?" I screamed. Spencer's back hit the wall and my grip tightened. "Orion, stop." Carter grabbed me and pulled me off of him. And I'll hand it to my brother, he was stronger than I'd thought because I'd stumbled back, nearly losing my balance .

Spencer coughed and caught his breathe, glaring up at me as Maya went to his side. "What the fuck is wrong with you? You don't put your hands on him like that!" Maya yelled at me, stomping over. Spencer caught her waist, pulling her back to him. I'd never hurt Maya but I could tell by his face he wasn't risking her going off on me right now. "You're the only person she'd tell if she was running. She's fucking gone and I need you to tell me where. She took her go bag and left this morning before we got up." Spencer's face twisted in confusion and Maya stopped struggling.

"What do you mean go bag?" Spencer asked, straightening. His look of genuine confusion is the only thing that kept me from punching him right in his fucking face. "She texted me in the middle of the night telling me not to worry, she had some things to take care of, but she hasn't responded since. I tried texting her and calling her a few times but I figured she was blowing off steam from everything going on lately. But she'd never take off like that." My heart stopped. What was she taking care of? Why wouldn't she tell me, tell us? Is she alone? Too many things flooded my brain, horrible things. I needed to get my head on straight so I could fucking think but when it comes to Lilith all of my whit and focus is lost.

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"You're telling me she left her cards, her keys, grabbed cash and her untraceable? When did you all go to bed?" Spencer asked. "Probably like 12:30?" I looked to Carter and he nodded. "So something happened between 12:30 and 3:17 when she texted me." Spencer said, looking at his phone. "Don't you have people who can like find her?" Maya asked, continuing to pace around the house like she'd been doing for the past 30 minutes. "Lilys too smart to be traced how we usually do things. I think that'll just be a waste of time." Spencer muttered.

Carter took out his phone and made a call. We all looked at him expectantly. "Well if none of us know, there's only two other people she trusts." We all waited as the phone rang. When it went to voicemail Carter shook his head and called Reign instead. When that went to voicemail I cursed under my breath. "Well what the fuck are we supposed to do now?"

Spencer paused and I could see gears turning in his head. "They may be retired and pissed off at the world but they never don't answer their phone. Especially if it's someone in connection to Lily." I started piecing things together. "She would only ever leave like that if it's important. And if something's wrong with Reign or Warren she'd drop everything in an instant. And if shes with either of them there's no way in hell we'll be able to trace them." Maya said. "I don't accept that. There's a way." Carter said, standing up. Spencer sighed. "I hate to agree but I think Mayas right. You know them. There's a reason they were the best in the crew. Lilith is more than trained and she can handle herself well."

"I have faith she can handle herself in most situations. But if it's trouble for them they're probably outnumbered and it's probably serious. I'm not going to sit around and twiddle my fucking thumbs and wait for her to come home when she could be in trouble, when they could all be in trouble. They are family. I'll find a way."

I didn't even wait to hear if they had a response, I got up and left. My fucking girl is gone and there's no fucking way I'm not going after her. Even if I don't know how to find her. I know someone who can start.

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"Damn man, I didn't even know you had a girl like that." I rolled my eyes at Banks. I didn't care so chitchat about what Lilith means to me. I care that he's the only person who I think could even come close to finding her.

"We can catch up at a later time when I'm not feeling so homicidal, Banks." I growled and he held his hands up in defense as he sat at his desk. "Okay dude, when you texted I got on it because you hardly ever call me for favors. I pulled up some traffic cam footage by the location you sent me and did find something." My eyes zoned in on the screen, my heart racing just at the prospect of seeing even a glance of her being okay.

He pulled up some footage and zoomed in before stilling the frame. My Lilith. My breath caught. She's okay. At least she was at the time. "What's the time stamp?" "Looks like 3:46am." Not too long after Spencer got a text. "Did you find any other footage?" Reign looked determined in the drivers seat and Lilith had a mixture of focus and worry on her features. I hated to see her with anything but a smile.

"I caught a few others within a half an hour of that one but they go pretty off grid after that. My software hasn't picked up anything since." "There's nothing else you can do?" I growled. He sighed. "Well, I did trace her phone. Obviously you said it was shut off shortly after sending a text but some smart phones can be traced even if it's shut off if you happen to have certain settings turned on. Unfortunately she doesn't have any of those on, probably very cautious. But, I am the best so I hacked the cell company on the off chance her phone pinged after she turned it off. And it did, probably 2 hours after those photos." He handed me a sticky note with an address on it and I knew where that was.

"I owe you one." I said quickly, practically sprinting out the door. Spencer's car pulled in just as I got outside of the warehouse. Carter must have connected the dots. "He found traffic footage, she's with Reign, Warren wasn't there and he got an address from a ping on her phone. It's the old bar they like to hang out at." I said as they got out. Within seconds we were all getting back in vehicles and heading in that direction.

Carter and I sat in silence the whole ride. Since I've met her I've always said Lilith will be the death of me. And if something happens to her, I know it would send not only me but at this point, Carter into a spiral. I've never felt that way about anyone and I don't think he has either. The heavy thought of that definitely hung in the air between us.

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"That's Warrens car." Carter said as we pulled in. There were a few scattered cars in the parking lot but not a lot, and his was the only one parked behind the building at the back. I pulled up to it and Spencer pulled behind us.

"There's blood." I said, examining the car. I kneeled down to look at the smear. It wasn't a whole lot and there was no pooling on the ground, so that was a good sign. Whoever did this wants or needs him alive for something. "Looks like they've been here hours ago." Spencer said walking towards us. I didn't even notice him go in. "Bartender said Reign was in here earlier and uh...'had words' with one of the new employees. Apparently he had a video camera out here to catch his hook ups. Reign left with his phone."

I immediately sent a text to Banks telling him there was an external camera and if he could trace the phone connected or pull up the most recent footage from the camera. Banks said he was on it. "Who the hell wants Warren? I'm just not putting together who would go through all of the trouble of dealing it's him to do this. If it was something the two of them got into, Reign is less paranoid, less annoying and probably easier to take down. It's got to be personal somehow." Maya said. I nodded, agreeing.

As everyone tried to talk things through I anxiously awaited a text from Banks, hoping for anything. Because I literally could not focus on anything else besides an image of Lilith in my head. I am never like this. The crew always makes fun of how detached I get when it comes to this shit. I don't see people, I don't see the aftermath and the effect it might have. I separate things out into organized little corners of my brain. But this is all different. My girl is somewhere right now, dealing with this shit with no backup, she could be hurt, they could be hurt, or worse. But I can't let my negativity cloud my judgement that much. I have to try and sort shit out with a level head.

*** AUTHORS NOTE this will be one of the very few chapters that will have Orions/ another characters pov, but I felt like it kind of needed it