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In This is the Part Where You Run, he and Landon head to a church in Atlanta, Georgia, so he could get their foster parents, Maria and Hector Gonzalez, off his back. He greets Father Pietro and is asked to pray with him, kneeling down to do so, and then tells Landon that he has it. While saying a prayer, he notices that the priest is doing is not part of the usual prayer, he is held down by his foster parents as the priest goes on with an exorcism. His bones start to break and reform, and he reveals his black eyes with gold irises, which in turn shows he's a newly triggered werewolf. He begins transforming as the priest continues the exorcism. When Hope and Alaric arrive, he asks them to help him and what is happening. He then transforms fully into a werewolf, all the while being chained down so he won't hurt anybody. The next day, he is seen fast asleep in Ric's SUV as they drive toward the boarding school. When they arrive, Ric asks his two daughters, Lizzie and Josie, to show Rafael around the school while he talks to Landon. They explain to him that everyone gets along for the most part and that the werewolves are cliquey. They show him a classroom where Dorian Williams, the librarian, is subbing for. He asks who the twins are talking about when he notices that the two are rather not keen when Dorian calls on Penelope. They tell him she's Josie's evil ex and when the stink spell is cast, Lizzie states they'll show him the turret. He asks what they smoke, jokingly saying eye of newt, but Josie simply states weed.

They then head towards the sports field and he listens as Lizzie explains a game to him. As Josie leaves to talk to MG, Lizzie flirts with Rafael and fails to make a good impression as she says the wrong things to him, and he tells her that he made it a point in life to keep clear of girls like her, and goes to find Landon.

At night, he goes to a party at the old mill and Josie does a summoning spell to bring Landon where they are. He tells Landon that all the emotion and what he is going through is normal as a werewolf and wants to introduce him to some of the werewolves at the party. When Landon says he wants to leave, Rafael suggests he go too as it's just them, and he wants to do it together. He and Josie are then sitting around a fire, and she tells him that he should give Lizzie another chance. She also tells him that they were sorry to hear about his girlfriend, Cassie.

The next day, Landon gets ready to go and Rafael comes outside to say goodbye to him. He asks him if he is sure and Landon tells him that he'll be fine. He then sets off and Rafael watches him leave the school.

In Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn, he hears about Landon possibly stealing the knife and incinerating the bus he was on, killing everybody on board. While Hope tries to keep him from coming with her and Ric, Ric says it's a good idea and Rafael remains insistent on coming either way as Landon is his brother and knows him better. When they reach a secluded woods section, he and Hope run into a woman who doesn't talk. Ric tells them to go find Landon while he tries to help the woman. The two eventually find him and while Rafael is at first shocked Landon did indeed take the knife, he believes that he didn't do it on purpose. When Ric comes back and tells them about the woman being a possible pyromancer, they try to leave, but the woman has shown up, silently demanding the knife. She then breathes fire again and after Dorian reveals she is actually a dragon, the group comes up with a plan to defeat her. After Hope defeats her, Landon and Rafael head towards the car while Hope and Ric discuss what happened. When they come back to the car, they notice the boys are gone and they have left them.

In We're Being Punked, Pedro, he and Landon are out in the woods trying to survive on their own. When they try to eat an animal, Landon comes up with an idea that they can get money with Rafael's abilities. They go to town to get money and Rafael completes the challenge up racing up the building in seconds, they get a bunch of money. When a man bets for 10 seconds, Landon looks at Rafael, who is somewhat hesitant at first. They get a bite to eat and while Landon looks at a message saying "run or die wolf", he keeps it to himself as not to scare Rafael. He then gets suspicious when he sees that Landon wants to leave, and asks him what's going on. Before Landon can tell them, they are both shot with arrows to knock them out. When Rafael comes to, they both notice the man with the fedora is shot in the chest with an arrow laying near them, a man comes up and helps them. He reveals himself to be Jeremy Gilbert and he was sent by Ric to take them back. Rafael confronts Landon about the bill with the message on it and understands what he was trying to do. They then go back to the school for their own safety and Rafael becomes a student again.

In Hope is Not the Goal, he stays in his room talking to Landon while the other students attend an assembly involving the two missing girls. When he is asked why he wasn't there, he states that he's trying to get used to the school. At lunch, he sits next to Josie who is at first wondering why he's not with the wolves outside. He keeps talking to her until Jed, the alpha werewolf of the pack at the school, comes up and tells Josie to leave. Rafael stands up and starts talking to Jed, who wants him to submit into the pack. He refuses to tell them about was caused his triggered curse as he gets angry when Jed states it being an accident or not. He talks to Josie once more and Jed shows up with two other werewolves. They begin beating him up to make him submit and after Josie helps him, he goes to the old mill to release his anger. He starts throwing various things and when he yells at Josie to leave him alone, she calms him down. He then notices a weird substance up the stairs and sees it's a bunch of web. They see the missing girl, Sasha Stoteraux, wrapped up in a spider webbing and both get stuck to the sticky substance. They then see a boy, Connor, come in and when they see he is not human, but an arachne, Josie siphons a little from Rafael and burns the arachne, but to no avail. They then break free and try to escape, but are almost caught. After Hope, Lizzie and Josie defeat the arachne, Rafael looks at the girls in astonishment and shock. Back at the school, Josie tells Rafael in the gym to interact and join the wolves. When he goes to them and brings the ball they had with him, Jed comes up to him. Rafael reveals what triggered his curse, Jed tells him to kneel down, but reveals to be joking and Rafael joins them in the game.

In Malivore, Rafael is surprised when Lizzie attempts to make a deal with him. The deal was that she would vote for Landon to stay at the school council and in exchange, he would take her as his date to a party. He eventually accepted, but not before hesitantly looking at Josie, who was also in the room when Lizzie asked this of Rafael. Later, when Rafael angrily leaves the council on their own after voting 'no' to letting Landon stay at the school, he goes to the school's gym to try and blow off some steam. However, he finds Lizzie had the same idea, but she was crying on the gym floor when he finds her. Rafael attempts to excuse himself, but she stops him by apologizing that she had no idea Josie would vote 'no' to keeping Landon at the school. After Rafael says it's okay and attempts to leave the gym a second time, Rafael is surprised by her again when she desperately stops him and kisses him. Rafael hesitates to kiss her back, but they both ultimately give in after Lizzie states, "Don't think about it." They then sleep together in the gym.

In Mombie Dearest, Rafael prepares to dance with Lizzie by dancing with Hope but is trapped in the Gymnasium by Penelope. While trapped he reveals that he is only willing to be her date because he feels like he owes her and that he isn't ready for a relationship since he isn't over Cassie. When the barrier shuts down Rafael manages to get to dance with Lizzie but turns down her offer of a relationship. Rafael later meets up with Hope in the library and the two dance together.

In Death Keeps Knocking On My Door, he is surprised to see Cassie alive. He comforts her as she tries to comprehend what is happening as well and is then confronted by her asking why he was involved in her death. He comes back later in the room she is in and he gets angry as she talks about his anger and involvement in her death. After cooling off, he walks outside to talk to her again and admits that he did kill her and that he needs to work out his issues, and is somewhat relieved that she forgives him for what happened. He then leaves her when she asks to have some time to herself and later on at night, he talks to Alaric. He begins to cry about killing her and his regret of it, but he wants to become a better man after all the events that have happened.

In What Was Hope Doing In Your Dreams?, Rafael realizes that he has romantic feelings for Hope when he dreams about kissing her. When Hope kisses Landon, he looks away out of jealousy. In his nightmare orchestrated by the Night Hag, Hope appears again, and the Night Hag reveals that Rafael wants to be with Hope, and says that that makes him the biggest monster of all as he knows about Landon's feelings for Hope. At the end of the episode, Rafael tries to repress his feeling for Hope for Landon's sake and tells her that they can't be friends anymore.

In We're Gonna Need A Spotlight, he's talking to Landon when Hope shows up acting unusually happy and calling them both handsome, leaving Rafael looking at her. Then Josie and Lizzie also come up to them and Rafael asks about their trip, Hope leaves for class. Rafael comes up to Hope in the Healing with Magic class. She asks if she can cut him as he can heal faster and he acts nervous as she gets closer to apply the healing cream. He stares intently into her eyes. When Hope is done she hugs Rafael for being such a great friend and leaves to find Landon. He attends the talent show and recites a poem, revealing his feelings to Hope and his eyes glow green, indicating he's being controlled by a slug. After Emma does a spell to electrocute those who are being controlled to free them of the slugs, Rafael stomps on the slug that pops out of him. After this, he is confronted by Landon and he tells him that they are cool, and when Landon walks away, he has a worried and anxious look on him.

In The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do, Rafael is missing from the werewolf transition space during the full moon. MG and Landon are also missing from campus. Hope and Alaric search the woods for them. Hope points out that since her locater spell didn't work they are either dead or cloaked. They find Rafael in his human form instead of a wolf. Emma diagnoses him in a state of lunar psychosis back at the school. His mind is trapped between his human and wolf form. Trauma caused him to change back to his human form.

In I'll Tell You a Story, in the hallway, Rafael saw Hope and his eyes turned into yellow until he heard the voice heads up and someone throws a ball at him. When Rafael asked how long he had been in the gym, Jed told him that he had been here almost an hour and asked if he was okay. Rafael replied with he didn't have to pretend to care just because he was the Alpha.

He later bumped into a vampire and the vampire started a fight. Alaric showed up but Rafael later pushed him into the wall. Roman and Jed later showed up thus the fight ended. Rafael apologized for his actions when the fight ended.

He was later seen with Jed. Jed came to him and told him that Jed doesn't really care about Rafael but only the pack. As he was already lost the pack while he was still their Alpha and Rafael shouldn't make the same mistake as he did and let his pride get in the way if he cares about them.

When he heard that his best friend Landon was in trouble he came into Hope's room and told her what he wants to come with as she couldn't go alone and the last time she went without him it was a disaster. Hope stated the fact that she wasn't going alone in the first place. She was taking the twins, MG and Kaleb with her and they would be back without Dr. Saltzman knowing they left. Though he insisted on coming along, Hope told him that Dr. Saltzman mentioned her about the side effects and that she couldn't let him come along. She asked him how he felt and he said like his brain split down the middle that he keeps having these flashes like he can't control himself. She asked him why not saying all of these sooner and he answered it that he couldn't and she knows why. He tells him that he doesn't want to feel this way, so he pushes it down, and that just makes the split in his brain worse, which makes it harder to hide. She tells him that he needs to put himself first for once gives him a ring that can let you turn at will but doesn't let you turn back at human form again. So if he wants to turn back he will have to find her. As Hope about to leave he tells her to save their boy and don't let anything stop her.

In There's Always a Loophole, in the hallway, his eyes can be seen turning yellow as Hope asks if he's okay he replies with that his mind still won't settle down and tells Hope that he can't join the fight. Hope gives him her reverse kyanite ring so he can use it against Triad. He is later made invisible so he can attack some of the Triad members. Afterwards, when Hope jumps into Malivore, Rafael stays trapped in his wolf form as she is the only one who can turn him back.