AN: My sincere thanks and apologies to:
Marie Elaine Cullen
and
AlchemistZ
Who warned me about my slight (and very serious) confusion of words. I admit I did not have time to fix all mistakes when I submitted it to . I did find strange when I wrote nephew but at the time I had forgotten about the niece.
I wrote this on a roll and decided to post it before my sense of self critique made me delete it. I will admit it's not only far from perfect, but it discuss events highly improvable. I hope you enjoy.
As for taking so long to re-post it, it appears that something went wrong with my connection to the main site while I was posting the original version (I had to use my cellular to read the reviews, and the mobile browser to read it.) So I couldn't log on for a while.
Kate Argent was lying on her bedroom cleaning her guns. She was angry, annoyed that Derek couldn't make her work easier by leading her to the Alpha so she could finish both of them. Nothing gave her more pleasure than a good hunt.
Pleasure, maybe satisfaction, but not happiness. At one time she thought that her job brought her joy, after all it was all about making the world safer by eliminating dangerous beasts. She would do anything to protect her family and it included bending the rules.
There was a soft ring in her phone. Not her usual ring tone either, but a number she had saved under a special signal even if she never expected to receive a call from it again. For a moment she wondered if she really wanted to answer that call, then sighted.
"To hell with it." She said to herself picking up the device. It was on the sixth Ring and if she didn't answer it soon it would go straight to voice mail, and that person was not one to leave messages that could be tracked to him. "Argent." She said pressing talk.
"Hello Katherine. It's been some time." Said an elderly voice. In truth she didn't know how old the man was. In fact it wouldn't surprise her if the fifty year old looking man she had seen only once and in passage was much younger than that, or thousands of years older.
"Not exactly much for us to talk about is it?" She said using her charming voice, the same one she had used with that boy dating her niece "Unless of course you can tell me where I can find the Alpha, or yourself." She mocked
"I am not here to talk about us, or the Alpha for that matter. However I have got wind of what is going around there, in fact I dare say I know a few things that would make you either very pleased or very annoyed." The man said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Let me guess, you are here to plead Derek's Hale Case?" She asked. "I've already heard enough crap about it all Sage." She replied, a migraine coming from remembering it. "He is not like you, he is a danger."
"And who's to blame for that, ma cherry?" The man asked in a fake french tone. "I told you once and I will say it again, what would your dear niece had done, if she was in the same role as Derek Hale, or myself for that matter?"
Kate Argent didn't answer. She was not going to have a repeat of this annoying talk. The man, sensing she had dropped the matter, sighted "Suit yourself Kate. I am here to talk about another subject tough. Tell me, what do you think of young Scott?" Asked the man with a very serious tone.
Kate's breath hitched as she heard the name of Allyson's boyfriend. The sexy boy of brown eyes who had, if memory recalls it, kidnapped her brother's daughter for her birthday present, something that labeled him as either very courageous or very foolish, probably the latter.
"What about him?" She asked with an icy tone.
"He looks like a "sweet" boy." The elder answered, and Kate didn't need to think long to figure the double meaning of his words.
"Is this a Joke Sage?" She asked getting really angry. "I know you well enough to tell you would not DARE to touch a single hair on that boy's scalp." She said, her voice acid. "And if you do..."
"Heh." The man interrupted her, and she could picture him with a satisfaction smile. "Obviously you are not much in the loop. For starters do you really think Derek wasn't aware of the alpha?"
"Don't you change the subject!" She groaned "What is Scott McCall to you. Because you would not have brought him into discussion if you didn't have ulterior motives. I KNOW YOU!" She shouted. And this had the inadvertent and very inconvenient action of making her brother show up in her bedroom ready to shoot someone.
"Kate, what the heck is going on?" He asked angry.
"Looks like we have a crowd." The man across the line sighted." Too bad really" He added disconnecting the call. Kate closed the phone furious, tossing it against the wall where it shattered into pieces.
"Who was on the line?" Argent asked, his face making it clear he would not leave the room or let her move without getting a satisfactory answer.
"An old and very annoying friend." She answered, reigning her anger. "Your interruption prevented me from learning something very important, maybe something crucial..." She said with evident dissatisfaction. "Excuse me, I have something I must do."
She picked her briefcase and walked to her car, Argent on her tail. Driving slowly, and fully aware that her brother was tailing her, she made her way to the school and to the stadium lockers. Finding Scott's wasn't that hard.
She took a seat before it and gathered her thoughts. Sage, for a werewolf and one who not only escaped her but also bragged about it was serious and wise, even if it disgusted her to admit it. She thought about Scott and the bit she had learned during that annoying dinner. The boy looked like a dead last who had somehow turned into a good player, or good enough for her niece... Could it be?"
"Katherine." Chris spoke entering the room. "What is going on?"
She paused, wondering if it was wise to share her knowledge with her brother. Certainly it would give him probable cause to make his daughter boyfriend-less and also bring his hunter clan a lot of trouble. Then again she would pay the price if Chris discovered she had been withholding information about a threat to Allison.
"I was wondering, how many wolves are there in this town?"
"What?" Asked Chris.
"I had a small chat with Mr. Hale. It would appear he knows nothing about Mr. Alpha. On the other hand he does seem to know something about a werewolf. After all he did mess up your hunt when you moved in, freeing you of your kill..."
Chris sighted. Was this his sister? The Same one that once told him monsters were monsters, and that a bitten human was less than a human? "Whatever, there will always be another chance." Argent said with confidence.
"However, it does prove there is a third one here, possibly another beta. I was wondering who it could be when it dawned on me. Who is the one person in this town who changed around the time we arrived?" Her hand reached for the locker and Chris eyes widened.
"You can't possibly be serious! That boy would not be stupid enough to hang around Allyson if he was indeed a beast. I am pretty sure the wolf I injured has seen me, Scott knows what we have and what we are capable of. Plus I am sure even the beasts can tell us from normal humans who aren't aware of it."
Kate raised an eyebrow. She expected anger, not denial. "Well, I know for a fact it wasn't Allison who stole a bullet from my case, a wolfs bane bullet. Assuming I hit Hale, and I am pretty sure about it, the fact that he is alive means someone helped him around the forty eight hour time limit. And who had access to the one thing that could be used as antidote?" Kate asked with doubt.
"I see. It's clear Scott knows more than he lets on." Argent finally agreed. "I will even concede he might be a werewolf, in which case I am not willing to have him anywhere near my daughter or this school." Argent said to himself. "What do you plan to do about it?"
"He's old enough to be free game." She said to herself. "Then again, for some reason I don't think we should mess up with that one. Perish the tough, he might prove a useful ally for the moment, just like Hale."
"You cannot be serious!" Chris shouted. "That boy is hanging out with MY DAUGHTER, YOUR NIECE!" He shouted.
"True." She said "But that's what most interesting about him. He's different than you, me, hale, maybe even Mr. Alpha. And you want to know why?" She asked.
"Not that I care, but enlighten me." He groaned.
"Because unlike us, he can truly be happy despite his condition. He is loyal to his friends, and he loves Allison, to the point he is willing to risk having his heart thorn by you if it means making her like him by being her friend. "You may kill him for the safety of your daughter, but I am afraid you would be killing a part of your daughter as well."
"Are you suggesting I stand by and watch my daughter and our worst enemy... "elope"?" Chris asked with a decisive frown. "Because that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard anyone say."
"Well, think of this like a Mexican drama. Eventually something will happen and Allison will have to know the truth, be it by our hand or young Mr. McCall. We, as in us two and Wolf Boy, will protect her until that day arrives, and when it does arrive we will let her make the choice."
"This is Insane..." the male Argent exclaimed "...But you have a point. Let it be the boy the one to screw this up. If we kill him it would add to Allison's already grumpy relationship with us. It's not like we can keep lying about our job for her eternally."
"Love is but fleeting. We can only hope this relationship is not one meant to last. Besides, we might just be able to get it done quicker if we get rid of the alpha and relocate to a very far away land, long distance relationships are bound to fail.
Argent tensed, the Alpha... It dawned on Kate as well. "Hale wouldn't turn Scott. Not even for this." She said. "I would think he would go for someone more athletic at default."
"That boy is too goody two shoes." Argent agreed. "Which means the kid is not of his pack, which means he's of the Alpha's pack."
"Now that would be... Inconvenient, and potentially dangerous as well. On the other hand remind me to pat Mr. Hale's back. He sure has a brilliant plan using the fella to track his sister's killer."
"I hope he won't mind that we are about to take a page from his book then." Argent Grinned. "Who would have thought that Allison, who knows nothing about this, would give us the means of accomplishing our mission.
"And if we kill the Alpha, and by extension the Pack..." The woman said with a knowing glance "Scott McCall dating your daughter wouldn't pose as a problem anymore, I believe this is what they call a win win situation."
They heard footsteps and turned. The members of the team were coming from their last school period for training. Scott and that odd boy were among the first to enter and they, like the rest of the crowd, stopped at seeing the two stranger.
"Mr. Argent?" Asked Scott surprised, no, terrified. The man concluded.
"Good day Scott, I was showing my sister the school, she used to study here you know."
"Well." Scott said scratching his head "You might want to avoid the boy's changing room for a while. "Things get messy before and after the games." He said trying to be gentle.
"As you wish wolf boy." Kate said standing up. And Scott flinched in panic while Chris glared at her. "What Chris? Might as well tell him he's on probation." She said walking slowly before Scott, admiring his brown eyes. "Better take good care of my Niece, for your own Sake, wolf boy." She repeated, slowly enough that Scott could tell she knew. But for measure she added "Give Mr. Hale my regards." She finished exiting.
Chris walked to Scott, the boy shivering. Part of him afraid the man would shoot him on the spot and another part trying to stop his beast from changing in the middle of the locker room out of fear. "You touch one fang or claw in my daughter and getting silver and wolfs bane across your heart will be the least of your problems." He said with a frozen tone. "That said I trust you to keep her safe from your creator, and Hale, DO NOT betray my trust." He whispered, leaving as well.
Scott fell on the floor, not handling it anymore. Stiles tried to comfort him, but he himself was a bit shaken by what just happened. Was it a good thing that the Argents didn't kill him on the spot? Or a bad thing that they knew altogether? Neither boy could answer, so what they did was pretend this never happened.
A figure watched as the cars of the two elder Argents left the School. Like the boys the figure was tense and with reason. Had he known Kate would tell her brother he would have not made the call, but in the end it appeared things had run smoothly, for now.
He knew it wouldn't take long before Derek discovered what happened. And he also could tell by the red eyes in the distance that the Alpha was already aware of it as well. One thing was for sure. Scott McCall was Cursed, and his curse was about to get ten times worse.
It looked like he would have to play Guardian Angel for a while, for the boy's sake. Not that he minded. It made him Happy.