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Not Gonna Die by Skillet

This will be a slow burn, I'm so proud of myself! Allons-y!

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
-C.S. Lewis

Adalia's POV

I could see the two boys, one hanging from the roof by his feet talking about a woman in the woods who had been cut in half. I decided to check it out, wondering what had ripped the woman apart; animals or hunters.

When I arrived I froze catching a glimpse of the corpse's face, it looked hauntingly like Laura so I crawled closer to properly look the body. I nearly screamed, it was Laura or maybe it wasn't; It didn't have Laura's scent of honeysuckle and roses; it just smelled like blood and forest musk.

It was torn apart I could see the intestines falling out. The face had a look of absolute terror on her face, Laura would never die like this; not alone in the forest ripped apart-shamed like this. She would die protecting someone, she would die with a sad, angry look-unless she had never known there had been danger; someone must have ambushed her, if this was her.

So I looked at the wrist; Laura had never taken off the bracelet I had given her: a braided rope bracelet with dark green stones in it.

I saw the bracelet on the body now confirmed to be Laura Hale and howled louder and longer than I ever had before, tears streaming down my face rapidly knowing I would have to call Derek.

Scott's POV ~Lacryma~

Scott looked up in fear as a howl pierced the air not two minutes after Stiles had let with his dad. The howl lasted for five minutes; Scott thought he had never heard a sadder sound in his life. Suddenly a deer herd ran out of nowhere and knocked his inhaler to the ground. The deer passed and he began to search for his inhaler.

A deep growl sounded; when he glanced to the side he saw glaring red eyes scaring him witless as he left his inhaler on the ground wherever it was attempting to get up. A large weight knocked him to the ground and suddenly an immense pain exploded in his side.

When the weight lifted he found himself scrambling up and tear across the forest, speeding into the road where an SUV just barely missed him. Lifting up his shirt he looked at the bleeding bite side extending from just above his waist to below his ribs lightning flashing as rain pattered against him.

Adalia's POV Praemordeo~

After calling Derek and telling him the news, I stayed on the rock until it was dawn howling my sadness to the sky. When the sun started rising I went and slept for as long as I could-which was only until six in the morning.

I rose with all of them deciding that I would let Kyle drive the others to school while I went to work early.

I piled them all in the SUV telling Kyle to drop the twins off first. He simply nodded, closed the door and drove off.

I rode into the parking lot of the mechanics garage I owned; a garage that hadn't been mine until two years ago when I turned eighteen. I parked my Duccati 1198R Corse and hung my helmet on the handlebars.

Walking toward the shop I took out my work clothes and went into the restroom to change.

When I came out I was surprised to see Derek standing beside his Camaro.

He looked genuinely surprised to me wearing clothes like this. "These are the type of clothes you wear here Adalia," he asked raising his eyebrow. I was wearing a tight black tank top that showed my belly button and khaki cargo shorts that stopped just below my thighs.

"Oh shut it Hale, you know that everything else is stuff I don't want oil stains on," I countered. But onto business; I assume you've come here to have that alluring car of yours serviced by moi?"

"I came to ask if what you saw was really Laura."

"Always to the point aren't you? When I saw the body I wasn't sure myself; the scent was just blood and the forest, but it was the bracelet, she never took it off, not since I gave it to her."

"Adalia there's a new Beta around."

"I could guess, I thought I heard an Alpha howling last night."

Derek jumped into his car and pulled out of the parking lot; I turned around and went back to work.

Alice's POV ~Quaerere~

Lydia Martin had invited her to the party after the scrimmage she would go but only because if she didn't Adalia would start bugging her about being a normal teenager and let the twins stay home by themselves.

Alice climbed into the stands and spotted Kyle on the bench talking to Danny. It was no secret that Kyle was bisexual; it was even less of a secret that he liked Danny. Kyle's smile was bright and lopsided his right lifting slightly higher than the left; his dark blue eyes gleaming, his shoulder length dark blonde hair moving in the slight wind; She found the whole picture somewhat enchanting.

She shook her head and focused on the McCall boy. Finstock started blowing his whistle as a sign that practice was starting.

McCall knelt on the ground covering his ears as someone threw a ball that smacked him straight in the face laying him out flat on the ground. Some of the players started mocking him when Jackson piped up: "Nice move catching it with your face McCall!"

Kyle seemed intolerant as he smacked Jackson on the back of the head telling him to shut up as McCall flips back up onto his feet looking serious. He catches one ball, another and another; he even manages to catch Kyle's throw looking as surprised as Kyle.

Jackson was getting wound up and took a running start, throwing the ball as hard as he could; the ball raced toward McCall and he still caught the ball.

McCall's friend Stilinski jumped up and started screaming as well as the new girl and Lydia which seemed to confuse and disgruntle Jackson.

After the scrimmage ended McCall and Stilinski ran off of the field in a hurry so she ran after them. Kyle saw her running off and mouthed 'be careful' and turned back to Greenberg scolding him for something.

They jumped into Stilinski's jeep and drove off in a hurry. She followed them moving silently to make sure they didn't know she was there.

As we ended up at Beacon Hills Preserve McCall started freaking out about how it seemed like he had all the time in the world to catch the ball. He continued telling Stilinski about how his hearing and sense of smell were enhanced. He points out Stilinski having a piece of Mint Mojito gum in his pocket; this was getting more worrying by the second.

McCall started worrying if he has some kind of infection that pushed his senses into overdrive before finally killing him.

Stilinski started becoming serious stating that he had heard something like that and that it was called Lycanthropy. McCall didn't seem to know what it was. It was moments like this that made Alice wonder how McCall had made it to high school.

Stilinski continues on to explain that the illness occurred once a month with every full moon and howls suddenly chuckling.

McCall gets angry worrying that there might actually be something wrong with him. Stilinski chuckles again saying "I know; you're a werewolf."

Derek shows up and Alice knew it was time for her to leave.

Adalia's POV ~Indicium~

Going to high school parties like this often made me wonder what the world had come to a moment ago I had the misfortune to see Lydia and Jackson practically having sex; the scent of arousal made my nose burn; the scents here were extremely potent, so potent they made my head throb.

I looked over in the corner seeing Derek standing in the corner like your average stalker.

"Derek, just how long are you going to stand over there and pretend to not be stalking Scott?"

"I'm not-I'm just keeping an eye on him, he's going to shift tonight and he'll get himself killed."

"Relax I'm just kidding; it was a joke-but you do really look like you're stalking him."

A scent came into the air; a bitter coppery scent tinged with hunger. 'Damn it Scott, you just had to come to the party didn't you?'

"Scott's bloodlust is bursting at the seams right now; I have to stay and keep an eye on Alice and the others, drive his girlfriend home an go make sure he doesn't kill anyone, cause' that'll get all of us killed or worse."

Derek nodded in affirmation and walked off towards Allison. I went on to collect Alice and the others to go home.

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