Hi! This one caries another Lit class warning - Inspired by a boring teacher in a class that has *way* to many essays on ethics. This feedback junkie would like you to know that if you want to feed her habit, e her at hcompanion@hotmail.com

THREESOME ALERT! m/m/f. Alex's new perfume gets into trouble with the men in her life. She who has not seen any of the third season, and  little of the second (stupid cable company at school) sets this somewhere on a fall day in the second season. <whine> This started out as a simple PWP and claiming, and grew into a series! This is *so*  unfair to me. Not graphic. Everything in remembrance. Just wait, though, until the next one!

Possession

Alex walked up to the lady at the fragrance counter in the department  store. This was where it had all started. She didn't see the lady that had waited on her that day, but maybe anyone would know where she could  get some of that strange perfume, the one that had driven the men in the house into a frenzy. It had to have been the perfume. Nothing else  about that day had been different.

She had gone into town to do some shopping and relax. Nothing was  going on at the house, so Derek hadn't minded her taking a personal day.  She had come to this mall because the department store was just opening.  It was supposed to be fantastic, with great deals. Maybe she would get  a new formal dress. Maybe a new coat. Maybe she would just look around for something new and different for her room. She had wandered over the clothes and furnishing sections, before coming to the make-up counters.  As she wandered among the name brands, she noticed a lot of women  stopping at one particular place. A fragrance counter. Maybe that's  what she needed, a new scent to attract the non-existent man in her  life. So she walked over and sniffed the testers. Nothing new here.

The attendant came over to her. "Would you like to try our new scent?  It's positively to die for." The woman had waved the strange looking  bottle in front of her. "It's supposed to fulfill your wildest wishes." Alex took it and sniffed at the nozzle. It did smell different. She  let the woman spray her wrist, and rubbed the scent onto her neck and other wrist.

"Thanks" was all she said as she walked back into the mall. She came  back a few minutes later, after realizing that she liked the smell and  bought a bottle. Soon after Alex was in a music store, looking at the new jazz albums. She noticed a man kept walking by her. 'Not bad' she  thought. She waited for him to come up to her.

"Hi."

"Hello. My name is Christophe, what's yours?"

"Alex."

"I hope I'm not being too forward, but you look divine. I was  wondering if you would like to have some sex... I mean supper with me."

'What a jerk.' "No, thanks. I have to meet my friends in an hour to  go out of town for the week. Maybe we'll meet again later." Alex quickly bought her selections and headed to her car. She would go to that nice little candle shop by the ferry docks. They made the cutest candles, and some of the best tea. She could use the soothing influenceof tea right now. When Alex started to look for a parking place, she noticed a car following her. 'Damn.' She immediately headed back into a more populous area, but the man in the Tercel just wouldn't go away.  'Maybe I'm paranoid,' she thought. 'Best just to go back to the house.' Alex got off the ferry a little while later and headed through the gates. She parked her car, noticing that everybody else was apparently here still. She walked in the side door to be met by Derek.

"Nice day?"

"Well. Not really." Nick came down the stairs at the sound of her voice. He stopped at the bottom stair and started to sniff.

"Alex, what did you do? Mug the perfume lady?"

"Very funny, Nick. I don't have any on." She had forgotten about the new scent, but then Derek started to sniff around her too. "Hold on. I did try on a new fragrance, but not enough for you to be smelling it way over there." She was getting scared now. The looks on the two men's  faces was changing; becoming almost animalistic. Alex backed into theliving room. "Guys. Guys!" They weren't paying any attention to her.

Nick had noticed the smell from upstairs. He thought that the cat was in heat, so he went downstairs to move it away from the air ducts. He came down as Alex entered the house. // Oh, my, the smells coming from her. Better make a joke about it, not tell her. She'd be *so* embarrassed// So he did. The smell just got stronger and stronger. He could see Derek responding to it. //Hmmm, better get closer to find out what was going on.// As he got closer, the scent became overpowering. Nick could feel himself getting hotter and hotter. He wanted Alex, wanted to pin her to a wall.

Derek watched Nick sniff Alex from the stairs, and reacted. //A rival for my mate! Have to defend her, protect my territory!// Derek paced between her and his rival, Nick. //He's not getting her, she's mine.//  He snarled as Nick came closer, and Nick bared his teeth in some  gruesome looking smile. Neither one paid any attention to Alex's protests, after all, she was the reason they were fighting.

Alex got into the living room, and grabbed the door. She started to close it, but wanted to be able to get out if she had to stop them from tearing each other up. Alex decided to close and lock the door. //I can always climb out a window. Better call Rachel. Damn! This is the weekend she had that conference.// Alex sat down on the couch to think. She ran through the names of everyone she could call, and came across one who would know what to do. //Philip.// She grabbed the phone, just as Nick howled and the two men banged against the door. She heard one being pushed into the wall across the foyer, and prayed for Philip to answer the phone faster.

"Hello? Is Father Callahan there?" Pause. "Oh, a baptism? Do you have any idea how much longer it will be?" Pause. "No, this is an emergency. I really need to talk to him." A crash from the hall. "Yes, ma'am that's the emergency. He'll understand. Just tell him it's Alex." Pause. "Please hurry."

"Aaaalllleeeexxx, it's safe, you can come out now. I promise he won't hurt you." Derek called through the door. Alex shuddered as she heard Nick snort and a thump that meant Nick had hit Derek into the door.

"Please, please, please, Philip, hurry up"

"Alex?"

"Oh, Philip, Thank God! There's something going on. DerekandNickarefightingovermeandthey'retearingthehouseapart! Come home! Please!" A crash that sounded like someone getting a vase broken over their head. "Hurry, Philip!"

"Slow down, Alex. Wha' was tha' noise an' why are they fightin'?" He took a deep breath and Alex followed.

"I bought this new perfume today. When I came home, Derek and Nick  started to sniff me. They went nuts, and now they're fighting like a couple of dogs over a bitch in heat." Alex jumped as Nick tried to get into the room. "No, Nick, go away. Just go to your room and leave me alone."

"Alex, come on, we're best friends, let me in. I'll protect you from him. I promise." Nick jiggled the handle, "Alex, let me in, or I'll take this door apart. I swear!"

"Oh, God, Philip, what do I do? I don't know how to deal with this?" Alex gets up to pace

"Come on, Alex. I know you're in there, I can hear you." Nick kept up with the handle, but she could hear a sound like a knife scraping  something.

"Alex, can you get out o' tha house?"

"Yes, oh, yeah, I'm in the living room." She went to a window to unlock and open it. "Yeah, I can get out. Why?"

"I wan' you ta get to tha woods. There's a clearing, an old circle, out there abou' a mile from the house in a southern direction. Do you know where it is?"

"Yeah, Derek showed it to me one day."

"Okay, sneak out and go there. I'll come righ' out, and meet you there. Okay?"

The door started to tilt, Nick had a hinge undone. "Yes, Philip, hurry, please?"

"O' course. Just take yourself and wha'ever smells like that perfume and leave. Go now. I'll be there soon." Philip hung up, and Alex grabbed the bag with the perfume, shoving it into her jacket pocket. She grabbed her purse and climbed out the window.

When Nick got the door off the hinges, he looked around the room for  Alex. He looked everywhere, under tables, behind chairs, then he noticed the window. Derek stumbled in behind him, Nick threw a punch that knocked the Precept back out. Then Nick headed out the window after his mate, the one he had fought over and won.

Philip made it to the island, and headed for the castle. At the front gate, he told them, almost, what was going on. He ran inside to find the living room door off the hinges and Derek laying on the floor, groaning.

"Derek, wake up, Derek." Philip shook him lightly, prepared for any move the precept would make.

Derek looked up at Philip and groaned. "What..."

"Alex bough' some new perfume that sent you an' Nick off on each other." Philip sighed and walked into the living room. "At leas' it looks like she go' away." He headed back out the door, and out of the house, heading towards Alex and Nick.

Alex hid behind a large rock that stood in the center of the circle. She could hear someone coming, but she didn't know who it was, so didn'tmove. She peeked around the rock, and saw Nick sniffing the air like some animal, then taking off on the path Alex had laid earlier in case. //You taught me that trick, Nick, now let's hope you don't remember it yet.//

Philip came into the clearing and looked around. No Alex. "Damn," he muttered.

Alex heard Philip's soft lilt and stood up. "Philip?"

He looked around at the sound of her voice. He smiled when he saw her, and she ran into his arms. "Sshh, it's okay, I'm here now." He rubbed her back, careful not to make a sudden move, he didn't want to startle her.

If Alex had looked up, she would have seen 'that look' come over Philip. She felt herself relax in his tight arms, comforting and safe. *Snap* She spun her head around, and looked for the source of the sound. Nick. "Oh, nononono. Not now."

Philip looked over at his brother and sighed. "We don't have to fight over her." Nick stood in a way that Philip knew he was ready to attack. "Really, Nick. Would I fight you?"

"No, you wouldn't. You don't like to fight. So just hand her over and we won't have to."

"Nick, Nick... Brother. You aren't listening to me. We *don't* have to *fight* for her."

Alex spun back to face Philip, and tried to get out of his arms. "No. NO! This won't happen, it can't be happening. This is too much, even for this house." She tried to get away, but Philip caught her and held her.

"Sshh, little one. We won't hurt you." Philip started to stroke her hair.

Nick watched this scene, and thought over what Philip had said. 'They didn't have to fight over her.' "Does that mean what I think it means?"

He addressed Philip, but Alex was still struggling. He walked over to them. He hugged her between them. "Sshh, Pretty one. We won't hurt you. Brother's right. Never hurt you. Just protect you." He rubbed a hand along her back as he looked back into his brother's eyes. "Does it?"

"Yes, Brother. I'll submit to you, Nick."

Nick could smell the scent on his brother, kept sniffing him. He released the hold and started to move around them both, sniffing. He could smell where the bottle had broken in Alex's coat, and was now covering Philip's shirt and chest. He stepped up behind Philip and sniffed along his neck. "Yes, scent good."

Philip shivered as the warm breath blew across his skin. He knew the perfume broke on him, but he wanted this, had for so long. He looked down at Alex. "What say you, Pretty one?" He picked up on the name Nick had called her and used it. "Would you like this?"

"Philip, I.... I ..... I don't know what I want." She could feel the perfume getting to her too. She hadn't noticed earlier, being more concerned with getting away. Now she could feel the need sweep through her. She hadn't felt like this since she was almost turned. She *wanted* them to make her theirs, to have a mate. //Yes, this is what I've wanted for so long. A mate, someone to share with. But both of them? Do I want that? Do I want to share myself with both of them? Two mates?// She looked from Philip to Nick, who was still sniffing Philip, and back. //They want us to be mates. But how?// "How?"

Philip laughed. "Nick will be the alpha mate, the dominant one. We'll share him."

Nick laughed at Philip's answer. "Yes, Pretty one and Smart one will share me. We'll be mates." He grabbed them both in a hug.

None of them realized that the perfume was acting on them this strongly. None of them would normally agree to this, but with the help of the chemical changes in their bodies from the perfume, they felt free to indulge themselves.

They wouldn't know until the next morning what had really happened. Alex woke up with Nick on top of her, and Philip watching from the side. She yelped, and Nick got off her.

"Nick! Philip!" She tried to gather her clothes, but realized that they were in a pile off to the side. She grabbed for a shirt to cover herself with and sat looking at them, waiting for an answer.

"All we remember is hearing from you. Philip said something about a perfume." Nick shrugged and held out a hand. Alex threw the clothes closer to him so he could sort through it. "We need to get back to the house. Philip said he called Sloan because Derek was almost unconscious when he left."

"Yeah, you were beating him pretty bad last night. So, what happened?" She shook her head at the sudden images that came across. Nick taking her, with Philip holding her close. Nick taking Philip while she watched and touched them both. Philip taking her, and Nick taking him. Nick and Philip taking turns taking her, and her mouth. Philip sucked by Nick, who was being played with by Alex. "And who was that?" she whispered.

"Who was what? The images?" Nick laughed. "Seems the perfume was a little stronger than we anticipated. He's" he pointed at a blushing Philip, "the only one who remembers something and it's those images."

"So, what you're saying is that somehow we're linked?!?" Alex started to moan on the leaves. She felt, more than heard, Philip come over to give her a hug.

"We decided that what ever is going on needs to be investigated, but not without everyone's permission. Okay?" Nick was trying to be reasonable, but really. Did Alex really not like him that much?

"No, Nick, I love you. It's just like the love I have for Philip, like a brother." She caught the clothes Nick tossed at her and Philip caught his.

They each turned a different direction and got dressed. When Nick coughed, they turned back around, seeing William standing there, with a very pissed Derek.

Alex tucked in her shirt and grabbed her jacket. "Sorry. If I had know what the perfume would do, I wouldn't have bought it." Derek made a 'humphing' sound and Sloan held out a hand. She took it, letting William tuck it under his arm, then they walked back to the house.