One to call Alpha
I do not own Teen Wolf in any way.
A/N-Welcome to the first chapter of One to call Alpha, the second in the Paige Hale series. Paige is very different this season.
Paige and Isaac weren't speaking.
They had spoken since the night of the formal.
Paige couldn't think of a convincing lie to tell Isaac why she left the formal so early. She had been helping her brother cope with his new status as alpha.
One night, Derek said, "I'm going out. Stay here". He gave her a look and she rolled her eyes.
"Alright", she sighed.
Derek made his way to the graveyard. He had been watching the Lahey boy ever since he had found out about him and Paige and Paige mentioned he was always showing up to school with bruises on his body.
Isaac was in the graveyard, digging a grave for the funeral the next day.
Some woman Isaac didn't care about.
The woman he cared about wouldn't talk to him.
He looked at his phone. He wanted text Paige, but decided against it. He examined the black eye on his face and noticed it was fading. He heard a twig snap and footsteps. He turned the rig around looking into the darkness. His gaze fell on a clawed hand on one of the graves. "What the hell?" he muttered.
The rig suddenly tipped over and Isaac fell into the grave.
Glass rained down over him.
From the grave, Isaac could hear growling.
The rig suddenly was lifted off the grave.
A man appeared and looked down at Isaac. "Need a hand?" the man asked. He helped Isaac out of the grave.
"Who are you?" Isaac asked him.
"I'm Derek Hale", he said.
"Hale? You're Paige's brother", Isaac said.
"And you're Isaac Lahey, her boyfriend", Derek said.
"What are you doing here?" Isaac asked him.
"To give you an offer you can't refuse", Derek told him.
"And what exactly is that?" Isaac asked.
Derek's eyes turned red as he said, "Power. Power to protect yourself and the ones you love".
Isaac arrived at school. He found Paige and grabbed her arm. He dragged her into a classroom. "Why didn't you tell me?" he asked.
"Tell you what Isaac?" Paige asked confused.
"What you are", he said.
Paige froze and said, "He offered you the bite didn't he?"
"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked again.
"It wasn't like I could say, 'Hey Isaac, I'm a werewolf by the way. Please don't run away screaming'", she told him.
"Paige, nothing could make me stop loving you", Isaac told her.
Paige dropped her stuff and kissed Isaac. Paige's wolf howled for her mate.
Isaac didn't hesitate to kiss her back.
The bell rang.
"Paige", Isaac said breaking away from her.
"Skip", she said kissing him again.
"Can't…failing…chemistry", he managed to say while kissing her.
Paige growled.
Isaac lightly pushed her back. "Did you just growl?" he asked her.
When she opened her eyes, they were golden yellow.
Isaac lightly touched her cheekbones.
He thought her eyes were beautiful.
They faded back to green.
The second bell rang.
She leaned up and kissed Isaac again. She grabbed her stuff and quickly rushed out the door.
As Paige was coming out of the girl's bathroom, Derek came out of the boys. She grabbed her brother's arm and said, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Checking on my new beta", he said.
"Isaac?" she asked.
"No. Jackson", he told her.
"You bit Jackson?! Are you insane?" she asked him.
"I'm alpha now. I need a pack", he said.
"I know that, but why Jackson?" she asked.
"Kid wanted it, but his body's rejecting the bite. I don't know why", Derek said, "…How did Isaac take it?"
"To me being a werewolf? Surprisingly well", she said blushing.
"Listen, make sure he's decided by the end of the day", he said.
"What if he says no? Are you going to kill him?" she asked.
"Don't be ridiculous Paige. I know what happens when a wolf kills another's mate", Derek said as Paige blushed.
Her wolf had come to that realization this morning.
"I see how you look at him. The same way mom looked at dad", he told her, "Go back to class Paige. We'll talk more later".
At the end of day, Paige walked up to Isaac. "What did you decide?" she asked.
"I want it. I want to be with you, no matter what it takes", Isaac said.
She wrote down the address. "Come by here later tonight", she told him. She couldn't wait for him to be a wolf.
To be able to be with him and not worry about hurting him.
She leaned up and kissed him. "I'll see you later", she told him.
Derek was waiting outside by his car. "So?" he asked.
She nodded.
Later that night, before Isaac came over, Derek and Paige were running in the woods when they caught Scott's scent.
They got there in time to see a wolf being snatched up by a trap.
Derek grabbed Scott and dragged him over behind a tree. "What are you doing? I can help him", Scott said.
"They're already here", Derek told him.
"I can help him!" Scott insisted.
"Quiet!" Derek snapped.
The hunters walked up.
Chris Argent shocked the wolf to turn him back into human. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" Chris asked.
"Nothing. Nothing, I swear", the wolf said.
"You're not from here, are you?" Chris asked, "Are you?!"
"No. No, I came - I came looking for the Alpha", the wolf said.
Paige and Derek looked at each other.
"I heard he was here. That's all. Look, I didn't do anything. I didn't hurt anyone. No one living. He wasn't alive in the ambulance. He wasn't, I swear", the wolf said.
"Gentlemen! Take a look at a rare sight. You wanna tell them what we've caught?" the older man asked.
"An Omega", Chris said.
"The lone wolf! Possibly kicked out of his own pack. Or the survivor of a pack that was hunted down. Maybe even murdered. And possibly alone by his own choice. Certainly not a wise choice", the older man said. He pulled out a sword. "Because, as I am about to demonstrate - an Omega rarely survives - On his own", the older man said and swung the sword.
It cut the wolf in half.
Paige gasped and covered her mouth.
Laura had suffered the same fate, only she had been dead first.
Scott looked away.
"Look. Look. Look at them! You see what they do? This is why you need me. Why we need each other. The only way to fight them is together", Derek told Scott.
"What are they doing?" Scott asked.
"Declaring war", Derek told him.
"Let's get out of here", Paige said softly.
When they arrived back at the train depot, it didn't take long for Isaac to show up.
Paige walked over and took his hand. "Are you sure you want this?" she asked him.
"If it means I get to be with you, then yes", he answered.
She looked over at Derek and nodded.
He walked over and shifted.
Isaac squeezed Paige's hand and cried out in pain as Derek bit down on the flesh of his side.
Paige patched him up and drove him home. "I'll see you tomorrow", she told him.
Isaac started to get out, but she pulled him back and kissed him.