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A/N: Anything written in italics signify's silent thought/telepathy. Also posted over on AO3.

Stand Your Ground

Chapter 01: Memories

A teenage Derek Hale stood in the middle of Hale house, he was impatiently waiting for his best-friend to turn up. His sisters Laura and Cora were laughing at the impatience of their brother, to them she was just another girl - who happened to be a werewolf. Derek turned around and glared at his sisters as the front door opened.

"Derek," the young girl laughed as her best-friend jumped at the sound of her voice. "And you said that I couldn't scare you," she stuck her tongue out at him.

"See! Derek it is possible," Cora laughed, before she looked at the older girl before her. "Hi Elizabeth McCall," she grinned before yelling out. "Mom, Derek's friend Elizabeth McCall is here!"

Talia walked out from the study and smiled at her, before telling them to go for their run now before it got too late. That was the day that their lives changed, more than what they already had. Derek and Elizabeth had smiled at Talia before taking off running out the front door and down the path. The two teenagers ran as fast as they could, over taking each other and occasionally jogging backwards they did for an hour before Talia heard an ear piercing scream and a sound that she didn't like. Talia raced from the house, towards the noise and saw Peter saying that he didn't meant to do it.

"You purposely came straight towards us!" Elizabeth screamed again, as she crouched beside Derek who was unconscious. "Talia..." Elizabeth pointed at her best-friend and then at Peter.

"Peter, what did you do?" Talia questioned looking at her younger brother and then at the two teenagers as she crouched down next to Elizabeth. "Go to the house, and look after the girls! Go!" Talia flashed her eyes at him and then looked back at her son.

"He's hurt badly isn't he?" Elizabeth asked, her voice wavering as she looked at Talia and then Derek as the young girl picked up her sons hand.

"Elizabeth, what did he do?" Talia questioned, watching as Peter got in his car and drove away towards the house.

"Derek and I, we were running like we always do - same everything. He was ahead of me, Peters car...he drove it straight at him..." Elizabeth paused looking at Talia with scared eyes before she looked at her hand and saw her veins.

"Sweetheart, I want you to take a deep breath and pull Derek towards you," Talia smiled at her, and proceeded to pull Derek towards her. "You know that you can help him,"

"Elizabeth..." Both of Elizabeth and Talia looked at Derek who had his eyes open and was smiling at him with a lopsided smile. "I know you can," he mumbled almost incoherently before closing his eyes.

"Derek, sweetie you need to stay awake," Talia whispered as she placed Elizabeth's hand firmly on his back with her fingers close to his spine. "Elizabeth, part of you knows how to help him, and the other part wants to take the pain. Use them both,"

Elizabeth nodded, she had been getting random feelings inklings on how the witch side of her could other Supernatural beings. With Derek she could that she had to do more than just kick start the healing process. Elizabeth pressed her fingers into Derek's back and concentrated before a small spark found its way in.

"Take a deep breath," Elizabeth whispered, his mother nodded and Derek took a deep breath growling as his eyes flashed yellow. Elizabeth slowly worked her hand along his spine. "Only take them when I tell you,"

"Listen to her," Talia said as she took her sons hand and absorbed some of his pain.

'His werewolf won't heal him will it?' Elizabeth sent the question straight to Talia, without talking. Talia shook her head. She could feel that it wouldn't and hat Elizabeth was the only way to help him.

'Most cases it would, but not this time I can tell by looking at him. The pain that he's in,' Talia answered Elizabeth's question knowing that she could hear her.

"Now," Elizabeth said taking a deep breath herself as she moved her fingers up his spine slowly and let the magic do its thing. Derek took a deep breath his head falling on her shoulder. "I can feel it weaving its way into his body and some how pulling it back together," Elizabeth said looking to Talia who nodded at her.

"It's working sweetheart, trust yourself," Talia told her, noting that little things like his feet were moving. "Take a break, we need to take him to a friend,"

Elizabeth thought about what she was doing and slowly pulled away from him. Talia scooped her teenage son up in her arms and the two walked back to Elizabeth's car, she'd gotten her license recently. Elizabeth climbed in the drivers seat, while Talia climbed in the back with her son, cradling him in her arms and taking his pain at the same time. By the time they had arrived at the Clinic with Talia's directions, Derek was losing consciousness again.

"Alan, we need your help," Talia had Elizabeth knock on the closed door to the vets. "Derek's been hurt, badly," Talia said as he opened the door and allowed them in urging her to place her son the metal bed.

Deaton looked at Derek and then at Elizabeth who was standing behind Talia. Elizabeth walked over to Derek and held her hand out to him. Deaton looked at Elizabeth and then at Talia.

"Elizabeth, it's okay," Talia said, before looking at Deaton. "She can help him, but we need you to guide her. I can only do so much,"

"What can she do?" Deaton questioned, watching as Elizabeth took hold of Derek's hand and put him on his side.

"Derek, wake up. You need to take a deep breath when I say," Elizabeth whispered, she had to make her best-friend listen to her. "Talia, he's not waking up,"

"Derek!" Talia growled low in her sons face causing the young boy to wake and look at her and then at Elizabeth. "Do what Elizabeth says,"

"Derek, when I say to take a deep breath you need to do it," Elizabeth said placing her just above where she had earlier and pressing her fingers in and letting the magic spark.

"You've been keeping secrets, what is she?" Deaton questioned, the two adults watching intently as both Elizabeth and Derek's eyes changed - Elizabeth's flickering between blue/purple and Derek's a brilliant gold. "Has she taken an innocent life?"

"No, she's a born witch, bitten werewolf," Talia explained as Deaton understood why Talia had bought them to him. "She would rather save a life then take one,"

"She follows you," Deaton nodded, stepping up to Elizabeth and watching carefully. "When he breathes deep you need to breathe deep, and continue doing what you're doing it seems to be working,"

"Now, you need to breathe," Elizabeth whispered again, Derek took a deep breath and growled low as Elizabeth 's fingers crept up his spine and the magic weaved it's way in and out pulling it together. "Again," Elizabeth took a deep breath herself and felt a tug indicating that the nerves were doing the same thing and going back into place.

After half an hour Elizabeth had been able to pull and tug his spine and nerves back together; but Deaton informed them that it may come at price.

"As we don't know much about her kind, what she has done for Derek may come at a price," Deaton said watching as Derek hugged Elizabeth and then his mother. Elizabeth looked at Deaton before she spoke.

"Doctor Deaton...I already know, it's something that I'm going to have think about subconsciously all the time," Elizabeth said biting her lip briefly as Talia looked at her. "I know, and I'm prepared...I may be scared to do it, but I know I can,"

"You will need to be careful, especially around the full-moon," Deaton paused briefly before he continued to speak running a hand over his head as he did so. "We don't know what will happen,"

"She spends the full-moons at the Hale House," Talia acknowledged, watching as Elizabeth helped Derek off the table and he straightened up. "How are you feeling Derek?"

"Weird," was all Derek answered before he looked at Elizabeth and smiled at her. "Thank you,"

"You don't need to say anything, I know," Elizabeth smiled in reply, something about their friendship had changed and they both knew it. "You're telling me...we'll get used to it. I promise,"

Soon after in 2003 and things had changed even more. Derek's eyes had changed from golden to blue, after he had taken an innocents life. The innocents life that he had taken? His girl-friend Paige's, after his Uncle Peter had convinced him that she would leave him when she discovered what he was. Derek had convinced the alpha Ennis to bite, Paige's body had rejected the bite, and Derek being frantic had taken her to the Nemeton tree with his Uncle Peter. Elizabeth had left Beacon Hills to study in New York, it was something that she and Derek had talk about doing together and she had gotten there first.

Talia invited Deaton to Hale House, as she had something important to talk about with him and she couldn't risk doing it over the phone. As Deaton enter the house, the Hale children went outside and were told not to listen to anything that their mother was talking about. They were told to forget about the man that they had seen enter the house.

"Alan, I need you to watch out not only for my children but for the McCall girl, Derek's best-friend," Talia had said as she had thought that something would happen to the young woman even though she had already left Beacon Hills. "Her name is Elizabeth," Talia told him glancing outside to where Derek was sitting with his younger sister, Cora and older sister Laura.

"You see something in her," Deaton said, as Talia looked back at him. "What do you see?"

"That she's special, a long time ago Derek and Elizabeth got caught in the cross-fire while playing in the yard. Deucalion caught her and Derek before biting her," Talia paused before she motioned for Deaton to walk with her. "It's not just that, she and Derek share a special bond you know that,"

"She healed him, and continues to when something exceptionally bad happens to him," Deaton said as he thought back to when Talia had taken both teenagers to see him when Derek had been injured.

"He also, accidentally scratched her as a child - the same day that Deucalion turned her," Talia told him, it was then that it clicked both teenagers were lead to believe that Derek's scratching her was what turned her. "I manipulated their memories. Made them forget about what he had done to them, they can never know. She may work it out, she may not..." Talia trailed off as she looked behind them to make sure they were being followed. "Alan, you can never tell them, promise me that,"

"Of course," Deaton nodded in understanding, he would keep the secret for her.

"Elizabeth I believe has already left Beacon Hills, that's why Derek's not himself," Talia sighed, seeing her middle child almost distraught that his best-friend had left was upsetting to not only her but her children. "She's part of the pack,"

"I can see something in her, and you can too. Can't you Talia?" Deaton questioned, looking at Talia as the woman nodded, she had seen Deaton had seen and that's why she needed him to watch over both of them.

Deaton bid farewell to Talia, but not before acknowledging that he would keep her secrets and protect her children and Elizabeth. What neither of them knew at the time was that Elizabeth would find her own way and eventually become a True Alpha. They didn't know that her nephew Scott McCall would be bitten and he himself would follow her lead – thus breaking the mythology of True Alpha's only appearing once every hundred years.