AN: It's Monday, ok fine it's now tuesday, so sue me. Anywho, here's Dark and Deep the interlude story for Miles To Go. Here you will meet Lennox and learn her story. this one won't be long, at all... i mean, the other two stories in the series is well over a 100,000 words. don't expect that. It's a side story, something to enjoy while we wait... this came upon me by something Gerard said in one episode so the what if's came in... anyways, read, enjoy, this is JUST the beginning, an intro of sorts. let me know what you think :)

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As I stood there, looking up at Beacon Hills High School, I couldn't help but wonder if I was crazy, truly crazy for doing this. Maybe I was but it was too late to back out, too late to find another way. This was the last place I wanted to be but I knew it was my best bet for meeting the local pack. None of the information given to me told me where exactly the Alpha lived or even hung out but I did find out his Beta's went to school here so it was a start.

I sighed, pushing my bubble gum pink hair off my forehead as I finally went into the school in search of the office. I found it without very little incident but when I entered, the secretary was nowhere in sight. Are they still called secretaries? It's been a rough couple years, I really couldn't remember.

There was no one at the front desk but a desk back sat a young woman, perhaps even a student, she did look fairly young but that could have been her small pixie like features. She was a lot smaller than me, the type of girl who would make me feel like a monster if I stood next to her. I mean, I'm 5'8" and I could just imagine the height difference between us if she stood up. Her hair was platinum blonde and hung straight down and past her shoulders and she kept it off her face with a headband. Her facial features were delicate and if you stood there looking at her, she looked like the type of girl who screamed 'protect me' but that was all erased the moment she looked up at me and smiled. Her eyes were the color of the sea near a tropical island and they held a fierceness, one that showed she was a fighter, a survivor, and I could appreciate that. She might look like a pixie but underneath it, she was all warrior.

"Hello, can I help you with something?" the blonde asked, pulling me out of my musings.

"Yes, my name is Lennox Sloane. I'm starting today."

The pixie like girl glanced around before shrugging and moving to sit at the secretary's spot and when she stood up, it was just as I expected, the girl must have been only an inch or two over five feet, if that. With the heels I was wearing today, I towered over her. "Luckily, I know how to get you all set up here. I'm Cat by the way. Student Aide by night, junior by day."

My eyes lit up at that, hardly believing that the first person I met was one of the people from the information I was given. But really the girl I had a picture of looked nothing like the girl in front of me. The picture I had was of a girl with short dark hair and glasses, no speck of makeup in site. A nerdy type for sure.

Now I tried to pass off my being excited as something else. "Really? That's great, I'm a junior too."

"It's rough being a new student." Cat sympathized. "I've been there before but most people are super nice here. I love your hair by the way."

I played with the pink locks. "Thanks, I actually have this thing for wigs. So I'm sure it'll be a different color tomorrow." If only she knew what my thing for wigs really meant.

"That's cool." Cat replied. "Alright, so I have your locker assignment here, and your class schedule." She paused with a frown. "Well this won't do at all."

"What's wrong?" I asked, practicing at keeping my heart beat level and the same. I know Cat would never be able to tell but I knew once I met the others they would be able to tell no problem. I was getting really good at it but now I couldn't help but wonder if Cat found a discrepancy on my "transcript." Notice the quotation around the work transcript? Yeah, it was totally fake, well not totally, just the dates have been changed and the first name.

"You have no classes with me and since I'm the first person you met here, let me just change you into some of my classes." She tapped away on the keyboard for a few moments before stopping with a smile and printing up my class schedule. "We have first period together, so I can take you to your locker then show you your first class."

"Are you allowed to do that?"

Cat shrugged. "I just did. Principal Thomas is pretty lenient with me."

I breathed a sigh of relief, partially from her not finding something wrong and partially because I knew someone. Just goes to show, doesn't matter the where or the when, it sucks being the new girl. "You're so awesome, thank you so much."

"Don't even worry about it." Cat said, going back to her desk and typing something out before grabbing her bag and moving to stand beside me. "Don't take this the wrong way but you're like, really, really tall."

"Is that so bad?" Obviously this girl and I were on the same wavelength and I wondered if I could be so lucky to meet the others through her and get in with the local pack, even if they didn't know that was my intention. Luck had to go my way at some point, didn't it? Why not now?

"When you're this short and all your friends are taller than you, you get sad when the new kid is super tall." The blonde replied with a grin.

"I'm sorry?" I apologized, ending it with a question.

Cat laughed as we reached my locker and she waited while I tried out the combination before dumping my backpack in there and grabbing a binder and a pen. As we turned to leave, an arm slipped around the petite blonde, whose eyes lit up and she turned to give the guy a hug, going up on her toes to give him a quick kiss. I'm not gonna lie, the guy was pretty hot; I had no problem admitting he was cute. He was a few inches taller than me with my heels but seemed to tower over the blonde who he had wrapped in his arms. His sandy colored curls were the kind that someone would love to run their hands through and if it wasn't for my mission and Cat being my first and only friend, I just might have been tempted but what really got to me, was his eyes, a piercing blue, as they turned to look at me and I realized exactly who he was.

"Oh, this is Lennox Sloane, she's starting today. Lennox, this is Isaac, my boyfriend." Cat introduced us.

I tried not to appear startled at the name Cat just gave me as I smiled and sent a small wave to the tall werewolf. I couldn't believe that I had lucked out this much, that the second person I had met at the school was one of the werewolves I was looking for. A part of me was a little confused, I swear the information had said that Cat was with Scott, the omega and I wondered how out of date my information was. Finding stuff on local werewolf packs when you're not part of any supernatural community is next to impossible, so really, I could've been very wrong.

"It's nice to meet you." I told him.

"You too, welcome to Beacon Hills. If you need help with school work, Cat's the one to go to."

The blonde pushed his shoulder before turning to grin at me. "He's right, I totally am. He'd probably be failing if not for me."

"Actually, our whole group of friends would probably be failing if not for her."

I couldn't help but raise my eyebrow at this statement. "Did I fall into the bad crowd already? I've only been here like 20 minutes."

"Stick with me kid, I got your back?" Cat said with a wink as she led the way to our first class.

Kid? Really? God if she only knew.

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