"Ladies and Gentlemen as we have have commenced our final descent into Beacon Hills would you kindly return to your seat, fasten your seat belts and return your seat to the fully upright position and ensure that your tables are stowed.
Please ensure all personal items and articles of hand luggage are stored securely in the overhead lockers or under the seat in front of you and that no items are obstructing the exits.
After landing please remain seated with seat-belts fastened until the aircraft has come to a halt at the gate and the captain has switched off the seat-belt signs."
Derek stared out the small oval shaped window and watch as the town of Beacon Hills began closing in. It hadn't changed one bit. Unlike New York the town wasn't alive with thousands of lights at night, it was dark and the streets were desolate. His eyes could see the streets even from up at this height in the air. The dark was one of the things he liked about this place. It took months for him to adapt to the bright lights of the big apple when he and Laura first arrived years ago.
Then his eyes traveled to the woods. Miles and miles of open wilderness. His inner beast was begging to run around the woods. He wanted to run till his hearts contempt, until the sun came up and then some. Forget shoes, he wanted to go on all fours and feel that fresh earth beneath him. He hadn't understood the term fish out of water till he had to leave this place.
Because you couldn't just run through Manhattan on all fours and think you wont draw attention to yourself. Not when there was cameras on every corner and even better ones in peoples phones. The wolf was not feeling that Shia LaBeouf, 'Eagle Eye' shit.
Derek looked next to him at the sleeping form of his sister. Her long black hair covered her face, but he could still make out the look of peace on her face. Sleep was the only time she would look like that. Derek waited until the flight was over before waking her up.
When her snapped up they flashed red for a second before easing back to her regular icy blue.
Without having to say anything they were out of their seats and grabbed their luggage from the overhead compartments. Both had one sport bag each containing a weeks worth of clothes. They didn't say anything when exiting the plane, didn't say anything existing the airport, and didn't say anything for the two hour long walk into the woods to their old house.
He took the time to take in the smells he hadn't realized he missed. The smell of wood, grass, and wild flowers. The smells were damp so that means that it rained some time this weak. The animals that roamed this place ran in some other direction when they saw the two wolves. No, not just them. From the bushes two wolves emerged. One had fur black as the night sky and the other had a coat white as snow.
" Ebony! Ivory!" The two wolves ran at them and all but tackled them both to the ground. Laura laughed happily has Ivory began licking her face, Ebony just rested his large head on Derek's chest and smiled his wolf-y smile. Derek chuckled, patting his old friend on the head.
" You've gained some weight haven't you, Ebony?" His reply was a bark.
The wolves had been with the Hales since they were pups, but not as pets. Never as pets. Derek's father had long ago made peace with the wolves of the forest when he first came to beacon Hills, and they had coexisted for years.
" Were is your pack?" Laura asked Ivory. In response the white wolf craned its head up and howled a powerful howl. The sound was music to the werewolves ears. In the distance, miles away several howls could be heard. " I guess that explains it."
When Derek saw the large chard remnant of their home he felt like he got hit with a mack truck. Emotions he long buried threaten to pounce and rip him to shreds.
Self loathing, rage, hate, grief, shame, guilt, the list probably goes on for a while.
Enough! he mental scolded himself. Now wasn't the time for a game of lets see what that worthless bastard is feeling! They were here for one reason and one reason only. He heard a low whimper come from Laura. Taking her hand into his they made there way up the porch into the house.
Good lord. The place still held the scents of his family. They were faint, so very faint, but still there along with the smell of ash. Looking at his sister he could see on her face that she caught the whiff. Of course she would smell it, she was an alpha after all with better senses then him.
" Do you want to wait-" Laura gave him a glare. Of course she wasn't going to take the cowards way out. If there was one thing his sister hated was someone thinking she was weak.
"No," she said sharply. Walking up the grand stair case she stopped before the very last stair, crouching down she unsheathed her claws and with her supernatural strength punched the old burnt wood with everything she had. The wood had no chance and was smashed into pieces. Moving the debris out of the way she reached into the hidden compartment of the stair and pulled out a book.
No, not just any book, her families most honored codex. The lunar grimoire. To her species this was basically their bible, or handbook. It held their history, culture, you name it. Many werewolf families owned one so it wasn't like they were rare or anything. The smooth leather bound book was well preserved, its paper made of rare fine material that allowed them to last for centuries without browning. It was not your average book.
The moment her hands made contact with the leather cover, her eyes involuntarily turned their alpha red, a strange effect that happened to all wolves who touched it.
Turning to Derek she showed him the book, and smiled victoriously.
" Step one is done."
For the next three hours the two wolves read over half the large book. They turned to the next page; " Here," Derek pointed out. His finger pointing at the paragraph that held what they searched for. Under the paragraph was a drawing of a male biting into the palm of another male. They read it a bunch of times before they had it memorized in their heads.
After finding another hiding spot for the book, the two wolves were running on all fours to the hospital. The light of the moon upon them the whole time as if the moon itself was watching them.
" Are you sure about this?"
Laura didn't bother looking at her brother. She had made up her mind long ago and only now was going to act upon it. No longer could she watch as her uncle suffered a state of paralysis. Not when she could do something to change it.
From where they stood in the parking lot, she eyed the open window of Peters room. The lights were off so that meant no nurse was watching him, good. All the more easier. It would really shame her mothers memory if she had to knock out staff.
" Lets go." Taking ten steps back, the she wolf broke into a short run, gaining that familiar momentum the came with an upcoming leap. Feeling that heat in her feet and tights, she jumped with half her full capacity With the grace of her people she easier caught onto the edge of the window, and without missing a beat she used her lower body to back flip herself into the room. The moment she set foot into the room the smell of her uncle flowed into her nostrils.
The smell of family. There was no better smell.
God she missed them. Her parents, her pack. She missed them all so fucking much. What she wouldn't give to hear another one of her fathers long being- an- alpha- of- your-pack lectures. Or to her her mother constantly telling her to go out and find a mate.
Fucking humans. Fucking Hunters.
They will pay. They'll all pay.
Derek jumped into the room right behind her, standing at her left flank. Oh, man, this room still looked the same as it did the day they left for New York. Peter was hook up to an IV looking at the exact same wall. The right side of his face had healed up but the scaring was sickening.
No going back.
Crouching down in front of him, Laura took peters un-scared hand into hers. She spoke the incantation she read, and when she felt her eyes go red she bit Peters palm.
Now, when an alpha turns a human, they feel a tiny bit of their power easily flow into them. They feel it covering their bones, swimming through their veins, and swarm their soul.
This was not the case.
The moment her canines broke skin and blood touched her lips, it felt like some stuck a big ass needle in her and began to drain her body dry of blood. Her alpha powers were being drain-no ripped, out of her. Hot pain consumed her, making her back away from Peter, and fall flat on her back.
" Laura! Laura!" Her brother shouted. He was saying something else, but she couldn't hear him. White noise override her hearing and her vision started to dim. Before her vision went completely she caught a glimpse of her uncles eyes. Those dull orbs sparked with life, and the iris glowed red. She should have been happy in that second, but then she saw it.
Madness.
Madness and blood lust was all she saw in Peters eyes.
Her brothers big form was above her, his mouth moving but no words could be heard. Worry and horror plain on his face. She saw Peter over his shoulder rise from his chair, and then she watched in horror as he began turning into a full blown alpha wolf. What the hell was wrong with her brother? How could he not pay attention as to what was going on?
The alpha head slowly turned to look at them.
And that's when everything went black for her.
Derek finally registered the sound of bones snapping. turning around he saw his uncle, ten feet tall and fully turned. " Peter?" The wolf growled at him. What the?... What was wrong with him? Why did his uncle look at him like he was a stranger?
And then it hit Derek like a pill of bricks.
His uncles gone rabid. A condition that rarely happened to wolf which is caused by a disrupted psyche.
Are better yet...
Insanity.
Acting on instincts Derek wolfed out himself, and prepared himself for a fight. Fuck, this was not suppose to happen. And could this have happen in a better place. They were in a human hospital, in a small room, and Laura was unconscious behind him. The odds of winning were slim. They were going to need a miracle-
Suddenly a bright white light filled the room, and an ear piercing sound assaulted Derek's ear drums, making him clasp his hands on his ears. The alpha hissed at the sound, and jumped out the open window, Derek and his sister used to come in.
As soon as Peter was gone, the noise and light went with him.
" Lucky i found you two in time."
Derek's head snapped to the door way. A dark skinned bald man wearing formal clothing. Black slacks and a button down shirt with a vest over it. He had a finely trimmed mustache and dark eyes that held vast wisdom.
" Who are you?"
The man eyes went to Laura, Derek growled in warning if the stranger tried anything. The man didn't look surprised, nor offended at Derek's behavior. " She's going to live."
Okay, not what Derek was expecting, " What?"
" What you and your sister did, you did incorrectly. The ceremony required a few things, and since you two didn't have them... Well..." He motioned to the unconscious wolf. " Although she will live, she is far from okay." There was no spike in his heart to indicate that he was lying. But Derek still hadn't been convinced that he was not an enemy.
" What wrong with her?"
" She going to be in a deep coma. When she will awake? I do not know."
Oh, no. No no no no no no no no. The fucking word was like a personal mantra be spoken without on off switch. His sister was in a coma, and his uncle was running around rabid doing who knows what-
" What if... What if I kill Peter, become alpha, and give it back to her the right way?" Kill his own family? Who could he even suggest that.
This isnt the first time Hale. You killed your other family members the moment you began fucking that human whore. And he still hadn't forgiven himself, for it. No matter how many nights when Laura would sooth him to sleep by telling him otherwise, he never believed her. Even when he heard her heart speak the truth he still hadn't believed.
" Bad idea. If you were to do that then three things might happen. One, she might die. Two, she goes rabid like Peter just did. Or three, she might never wake up."
" Then what-"
" What, your going to do his help me move her body. Before the hospital staff comes in. I know where just to keep her."
Scott McCall screamed out in pain as he felt teeth sink into his side. Whatever just bit him threw him aside, giving him time to get up and run. His mother was right Adrenaline was one hell of a pain killer because right now the wound was slightly numbing itself and his heart was hitting his chest cavity hard. He didn't dare turn around unless that animal was still behind him.
A car was so kind enough not to hit him when he ran onto the road. Then again it was his fault for not looking. He lifted up his hoodie to inspect the damage. He was bleeding alot but not at a rate that would be a cause for concern. The bite was just above his hip bone. He looked back into the woods.
What was that?
And as soon as the thought crossed his mind, he heard a howl in the distance.
She looked so peaceful.
Derek stood by against the wall watching the vet insert on IV into Laura's arm. A heart monitor was on the other side of the bed. Derek's eyes kept finding their way back to the damn thing, waiting for something to change. The younger wolf felt like the beeping was going to stop any second now, and he was going to be all alone.
He needed a drink. No- He needed drinks.
" Okay she's all settled in," said Dr. Deaton. He pulled her bed sheets up to her collar bone. Covering her bare breast. At least the guy had a leveled head. Someone in the room needed to.
" At the hospital, what was that sound?" The wolf rolled his eyes when the vet showed him a dog whistle he wore around his neck. " And what about the lights-"
" If I'm correct," the doctor said suddenly, " Peter should be out right now in the woods."
Derek didn't even question. He picked up and put on his leather jacket. " I'm going to find him."
" You think you can beat him?"
" Yes." The answer cam without hesitation. Peter was not in his right state of mind, so Derek was beating on that to hinder his uncles true potential and make him an easy fight. A wolf that was insane was as easy pickings as an omega.
" Be careful Derek. When your sister comes to, I don't want to have to tell her her brother is dead."
While those words hit him bellow the belt, they also gave Derek's resolve a power boost.
He was not going to fail.
Never.
AN: Hope you enjoyed the first chap. Review, and inform me of any grammar or spelling mistakes. THANKS!
