Hey there ladies and gents! :) I hope you enjoy my new story and first Teen Wolf story on here! I have have this whole new love for Daniel Sharman and his character on Teen Wolf so I felt that Isaac needed some loving in this story between himself and a new OC. This story follows the main character, Raven Hale, and the lives of all the other characters in Teen Wolf so please enjoy! R&R! :D
I do not own Teen Wolf or any of its characters, if i did shit would be insane and completely different but then i wouldn't have this story so yeah. I do own my character Raven Hale and any other original characters i create to support my story. :)
Family is Everything
Chapter 1
It was the three of us sitting in this damn vault, nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. It's been so long, at least 3 full moons have passed, and I could feel it. We haven't changed or even seen the moon itself but I could always feel it, no matter where. I could also feel my self-control slipping away slowly, it was happening to all of us, Boyd and my older sister, Cora.
I was sitting in between the both of them with our hands holding each other's for moral support, it has been extremely too long. "Cora?" I called to her in a whimper, even if she was only sitting right next to me.
"Yeah Rae, what's wrong? Are you okay?" She answered and simultaneously questioned. That's my sister, always looking out for me even if she was dying, well in this case it felt like we were dying. She held onto my hand tighter, giving me reassuring squeezes and I could feel Boyd mimicking her as well. This is what we did, we took care of each other in these four months. The only exception to that sort of law would be Erica, the girl who died before we got here, Boyd still wasn't ready to explain how exactly.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. It's coming Cora, another full moon, I can feel it coming soon." I informed her, always was the one with the spookier talents. By now my warnings of the full moon were taken easier, at first I had scared off Boyd with my internal clock. Cora was shocked as well but she couldn't turn away her little sister, never has and never will, you'd think I was 5. Cora and I are 17, just like Boyd, sharing only a few months difference, Cora being the eldest.
"How much longer do you think they'll keep us in here for?" Boyd asked, worried that they'd never let us go. The Alpha pack did dangerous and cruel things but there was usually a reason behind it, Deucalion's very own hidden agenda. He led his loyal sheep, Kali, Ennis, Aiden and Ethan, and of course they followed.
"You two don't worry okay, one way or another we'll get out of here. We just have to wait a little bit longer, just a little bit longer." Cora repeated in a soothing manner.
"I love your optimism Cora but the full moon is literally tomorrow night and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be rough." I snapped at her. She just squeezed my hand tighter to calm me down.
"You know I don't remember you ever being this grouchy, Raven Marie Hale." She joked and chastised, she even used my full name. It's definitely been a while since she's called me by that, it was nice hearing it again, in such a carefree tone, even in our situation.
It's the night of the full moon and we are all about to pop. Boyd was already pacing around the vault, Cora was sitting on the ground trying to keep control, and I was up against a wall in the vault shaking uncontrollably. We didn't have much time before we lost it completely. I could physically feel my wolf trying to rip up out to the surface, and if I could feel it so could they, we didn't have much time.
I started panting and growling, my claws exposing. "Rae, are you okay?" Cora asked seeing me change knowing what would happen next. Boyd even stopped pacing to watch me and to wait for what's to follow. That's when he finally snapped and began wolfing out as well, Cora just stood holding on to her senses just that much longer before we all just snapped.
Growls were heard but that's not all, there was a pounding coming from one of the vault walls. Our inner predator told us to hide and wait to trap our pray. The banging became clearer and clearer until finally I saw the wall break letting in two unlucky bastards. For a crazed werewolf I was shocked at my self-awareness and sense of me underneath the wolf. I tried fighting to the surface but couldn't make it, now it was time to wait for the right moment to pounce.
"Boyd?" The first male called out and in response we all let out growls. Boyd came out of hiding and Cora and I inched closer to get a better view. A clear view I did indeed get because then I saw him, Derek. "Boyd? It's me, it's Derek." He announced. The other one answered his phone but all I could focus on was Derek, my self-control was strengthening, he always was my anchor, my amazing older brother.
"We're here to get you out okay?" He said again not seeing Cora and I completely, we were still semi-hidden. Now Cora stepped out when the other one call out to Derek, once he turned back to the both of them he was definitely shocked. "Cora?" He called out first.
"Who?" The other one asked.
"Cora?" Derek repeated.
"Derek, get out. It's not just us, Raven is here too." My sister warned, I was getting my control back, I was fighting it. My wolf was about to get ahead and then I heard it.
"Raven?" Derek called out and I won, I was crouching down in a bundle shifting back while the other four were having their wolf-off, not by choice of course. Deucalion's little helper opened the vault door and completed the circle to seal us in.
"No, no wait!" Derek and the other one growled out together. She obviously didn't listen and ultimately locked us in while the others began fighting. Derek and the other one, Scott, I learned, trying to hold off Boyd and Cora.
"You know her?" Scott asked when they were thrown into a wall.
"She's my sister, my younger sister, and so is Raven." He answered.
"What are they doing here?" Scott asked again.
"Like I know, I thought they were dead." Derek shouted back, while I sat back and trembled in my little corner.
"Look out!" Came a shout from the vault entrance, a girl shrieked. You heard more growls and gasps, blood spilt and could be smelt in the air. She was bending down to break the seal but that wouldn't be a smart idea, Derek seemed to think so too.
"No! Don't break the seal!" He shouted at her and I heard Cora's growl echo around the room.
I'd had enough, I jumped out towards her, "Ignore him! Just break the damn seal now!" I ordered her and took my spot holding myself up on the wall next to the entrance.
"Boyd!" She shouted out and grabbed his attention as she broke the seal and he and Cora fled the scene. I grabbed all my power and followed them out the entrance to try and call them back.
"Cora! Boyd!" I shouted behind them, limping out of the vault, my strength obviously diminished but still there like a fading light. They continued, ignoring my plea, their bloodlust too demanding and I retired to a nearby wall to keep myself up straight.
Derek grabbed the girl and Scott shot out, "Don't touch her!" He too wounded and limping.
"What do you think you're doing!?" Derek shouted, ignoring Scott and manhandled her.
"That I had to do something!" She shouted back in his face and I gave her props for standing up to my big bro like that, as I stood back just watching the argument unfold before my eyes.
"She saved our lives!" Scott defended.
"Yeah and what do you think they're gonna do out there!? Do you have any idea what we just set free!?" He continued chastising her.
"You want to blame me!?" She shot back and now looked to me, remembering how I helped her perform the deed.
"Derek!?" I shouted with all my strength, he actually ignored me.
"I'm not the one turning innocent teenagers into killers!" She fought back.
"No, that's just the rest of your family!" He accused. What the hell have I missed while Cora and I were gone?
"I made mistakes!" She admitted too. "Gerard is not my fault." She explained.
"And what about your mother?" He asked. They were literally at each other's throats but this statement shocked her completely.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"Derek." I called once more, calmer.
"Not now Raven." He snapped while looking at me once and turning back towards the girl. Scott seemed to be too quiet now which I found strange. "Tell her Scott!" My big brother prodded.
"What does he mean Scott?" She asked, waiting for an answer to her new found question. "What does he mean?"
While those two had their little honesty hour Derek finally decided to acknowledge my presence and dragged me by my arm while I limped along. "Hey Derek, take it easy please?" I asked him while I panted.
"Oh yeah, you're right. I'm sorry, let me help you out." He apologized and picked me up carrying me through the bank and stopping at a door to a storage room. "Can you stand on your own?" He asked me.
"Yeah, I can hold myself up." I assured him and as he placed me down I quickly made my way to the wall to keep myself up while he walked up to the door.
He put his hand on the knob but he didn't turn it, he was hesitating, scared of what he would find behind that door. I had a pretty good idea of what or who could be there so I walked over to him, supporting myself by his arm and holding his hand. He looked into my eyes and I saw guilt and sorrow, I just nodded my head signaling him to open the door and he nodded back in return.
He finally turned the knob and slowly opened the door and there she was, just how Boyd described her, it was Erica, more like her lifeless body. Derek walked into the room and lifted her lifeless form in his arms then walked out of the room, closing the door on his way out. "I'm so sorry Derek."
"It's not your fault Raven, there is nothing to be sorry for." He waved off but I knew he was trying to be strong, losing a member of the pack was definitely hard.
"Pack is family and family is everything." I recited. He looked up at me and started walking back to Scott and Allison and I followed at my own pace.
"So you're Derek's younger sister?" The very annoying and very energetic teenager named Stiles, asked me. My equally annoying but not equally energetic uncle Peter was also here in Derek's loft. Where he so nicely left me to endure what I learned to be a new type of torture.
"Does he shut up, ever?" I asked Peter and Stiles seemed offended. He had asked me that same question at least five times and although I was weak I am willing to bet I have enough strength to break his nose in one punch.
"Unfortunately no. Now here's what I'd like to know, how did you revert back? You've missed 3 full moons, not including tonight, you should be like a rabid dog." Peter pondered.
"I really don't know Peter. I was ready to attack both Derek and Scott when they broke in but I didn't. I controlled my wolf like you would any other full moon and I used my normal anchor to keep me from killing. Also that's another thing, I've felt the past 3 full moons. I've felt their pull but being trapped in the vault kept me from turning I guess. We were all drastically weakened before being thrown in the vault." I informed them.
"Seriously, that's got to be impossible since Boyd and your other sister are out there on the prowl." Stiles concluded.
"Look that's what went down okay!" I shouted at him and looked at Peter since he was quiet once again. Admittedly he looked good for a man who Cora and I had heard was dead, we kept tabs on our family which also meant I knew how he killed Laura. "You're awfully quiet Peter." I commented grabbing his attention.
"You know you used to call me your uncle Pete, even said I was your favorite uncle once. Can I ask what happened?" He was unbelievable, truly was.
"You killed Laura and tried killing Derek." I answered and he seemed shocked that I knew. "We were in hiding but that didn't mean Cora and I didn't do our homework Peter." I cleared up for him and he actually looked impressed, in truth Scott helped fill in some gaps on the way over here when Derek dropped me off. We did in fact learn about Laura's death beforehand but had no idea that Derek was back in our home town figuring it all out, we didn't even know he was alive. "Are you sure all three of them will be alright out there? Scott said that Isaac still…" I was interrupted mid question when Stiles' phone rang obnoxiously loud. Peter and I shot glares at him.
"Sorry, just give me a second." He excused himself. I made sure to listen in while Peter just sat back down and laid his head back, probably doing the same thing I was. "Hey Lydia, what's wrong?" Stiles asked overly concerned. Peter seemed to grow a pedophilic smile by hearing this girl's name and that alone gave me chills.
"There's a dead body!" She screeched.
"Dead body where, Lydia? Where are you?" He asked and began pacing. If Cora and Boyd did this we may seriously have a problem. Damn!
"The pool, public pool. There's blood everywhere and I need you to be here Stiles, please?" She begged him and he practically flew out of the loft without a single goodbye. That left me and Peter alone to consider what we just heard.
"Do you think it was them?" I finally asked, tired of the uncomfortable silence. "Do you think they killed that person?" I asked, somewhat clearer.
"It's possible but there is still a chance that it wasn't them." He answered.
"Are you just saying that because you know it's what I want to hear?" I asked again. I got a small smile out of him and probably all I will get but that was all I needed.
"I'm going to go back to my apartment and get some rest so you stay here and keep out of trouble." He said but I knew he was lying. "Bye Rae." He called before exiting the door and calling me by my nickname.
"Bye Peter." I ended when I knew he wouldn't hear me, or maybe he would, who knows.
~Derek's POV~
Isaac and I were in the car waiting for Scott to finish talking to Chris Argent. We needed help tracking Boyd and Cora and sadly he was our only hope, not that I'd ever admit that.
"Do you think this is gonna work?" Isaac asked me, both of us seeing how Chris pulled the gun out on Scott.
"No." I answered simply.
"Me neither." He agreed with me. "So your, ah, your sisters?" He brought up and I turned to him and he turned to me. "Sorry, it's bad timing, sorry." He broke under my gaze. Another moment passed, "I'll ask later, its fine." I turned back towards him once more and he looked to me as well. "Or never." He suggested, I was happy with that answer. "Yeah, I'm good with never."
We turned back to Chris and Scott and he finally pulled the gun down. Scott looked like he almost failed but he somehow go Chris to do him a "tiny favor" as he called it. We followed their car and drove up to a crime scene.
"Hey guys." I heard Raven opening the back door and getting in. "Why are we following that car up there?" She asked as if she was in on the plan the whole time.
"What the hell are you doing here Raven?" I growled in a threatening tone that made Isaac squirm in his seat but left Raven not phased at all.
"I'm helping, it's horribly boring all alone in your loft, and I mean seriously, you couldn't have left me with better company who wouldn't ditch me?" She whined clearly annoyed but I smirked finding her reaction humorous. "I knew you were punishing me you ass, I should wipe that smirk off your face." She shot with a pout and I could see Isaac and his awestruck face, he was obviously amazed by her. "Or you could have left me with Isaac." She suggested while they both looked at each other and I think I saw Isaac blushing a bit.
"You should be healing." I said, no longer smirking.
"Aww, look at my favorite older brother, looking after little old me, just like old times." She said in a softer tone referring to before the fire and before I thought she was dead. "I'm sufficiently healed to help round them up, I must say, asking for a hunter's help is risky, especially an Argent." She warned a bit coldly.
"Allison's dad has changed, he's different now, and he is not going to come after us." Isaac answered and I could see a new gear turning in Raven's pretty little head. I could also see how Isaac's couldn't keep his eyes off of her and Raven couldn't keep her eyes off of him as well.
"You mean to tell me Scott fell for a hunter's daughter, who just so happens to be a newly trained hunter herself. I don't want to sound like too much of a bitch but what did he take notes from your past love experiences or something. I mean really, you wouldn't think that would happen more than once." She mocked now focusing on me and it pissed me off extremely and Isaac once again was squirming in his seat.
Scott finally came back to the car. "He's gonna help so we're following him. When did she get here?" He asked at the end, finally acknowledging Raven's presence.
"I got here a minute ago, now are we going to follow the nice hunter man or not?" She annoyingly asked. She had a smug smirk on her face and I know she was getting back at me for leaving her with Stiles and Peter. Why did she have to be so much like me, a smartass?
~Raven's POV~
"Tracking them by print?" Chris asked the boys while dropping his black duffel bag full of goodies. He was eyeing me a bit, probably wondering why I wasn't out there joining my sister.
"Trying to." Scott answered as they both crouched down to examine a print that was left behind.
"Well then, you've been wasting your time. There is only one creature on Earth that can visually track footprints and that's man. And if you're not trained like me then you'll have no idea that this print is Boyd's and that these…" He was going on but Isaac interrupted.
"Are Cora's." He answered but I knew he was wrong.
"No, they're yours." I continued for Chris and now all eyes were on me.
"Very good Raven. Isaac, you trampled Cora's tracks as soon as you walked over here." He explained and Isaac looked dumbfounded. "Listen I know all four of you are focusing half your energy on resisting your own urges on the full moon," He said while actually staring right at me, how subtle, "That puts you at a severe disadvantage to Boyd and Cora, they've fully given in. They've put the petal to the floor while you four are barely reaching the speed limit." If we were calculating power I'd say more or less I was running on half of the half I actually had, that would be a quarter of my actual power. Don't you just love math?
"So what do we do?" Derek asked, with his arms crossed, standing at attention.
"Focus on your sense of smell, actual wolves are known to track their prey by a hundred miles a day by scent. A trained hunter can use scent to track them." He continued explaining. "If the wind is with them wolves can track a scent a distance of 2 mile radius which can draw them to us or into a trap." He explained focusing on Scott now. "The full moon does give us one advantage." He started but I added.
"They'll have a higher heat signature that makes them easier to spot with infrared." I stated showing off my knowledge.
"You are well informed." He commented.
"Cora and I try to be but we are nowhere near more experienced than you. Please continue." I complimented him and felt giddy knowing I was doing something right. Chris started passing out infrared goggles, state of the art hunter technology.
"Thanks but I've got my own." Derek announced and flashed his red orbs only Alpha's can project and show off.
"I just want to remind you that we are not hunting wild animals," This sentence made me cringe since he was comparing my sister to a wild animal, "these are the impulses of two intelligent human beings. Don't think they can't rely on that human side, it's suppressed but it's there. Reminding them how to mask their scent, how to cover their tracks, and how to survive." He preached.
We began walking through the woods, five people on a mission. "When's the last time you saw your sister?" Chris asked Derek.
"Nine years." Derek answered. "I thought she died in the fire with Raven." He answered with disappointment which only added to my guilt.
"Do you think you have a lock on her scent?" He asked Derek again and got a negative head nod. "What about you Raven?"
"My senses are still impaired, I'm not fully healed. I couldn't possibly track her tonight." I answered, reminding myself that I was still hurt and I began questioning how much help I could really be to them. I was looking down in disappointment when I felt Isaac's hand on my shoulder, comforting and reassuring, I actually felt tingles.
Chris just moved on, "Scott, I'm confident in you and your skills."
"Honestly, I'm spending most of my time trying not to think about the things I can smell." He answered.
"Alright, the problem is when they breach the woods and hit the residential area, once they're past the high school they are right in the middle of Beacon Hills." He explained.
"They're not gonna kill everything they see, are they?" Isaac asked.
"No, but there is an important difference to recognize, wolves hunt for food and at a certain point they will get full. Boyd and Cora are hunting for the pleasure of the kill, there is some primal apex predatory satisfaction that comes from ripping up warm bodies to bloody shreds and who knows when that need gets satiated." Chris ended with.
"We can't kill them." Scott stated.
"What if we can't catch them?" Derek said. We looked at each other and shared our worry.
"Then maybe we just need to contain them." Chris suggested. "There is no one in the school at night, is there?"
"One shut from the inside." Derek continued.
"Yeah but there has to be somewhere with a strong door, no windows, or access to the other side." Chris added.
"What about the boiler room?" Isaac asked. "It's just one big steel door."
"You're sure the school is empty?" Chris asked once more.
"It has to be. There can't be anyone there this late, right?" Scott answered.
"Let's just hope there isn't." I added.
"These are ultrasonic admitters, they're the tools we use to coral werewolves, pushing them towards a direction we want them to run." Chris stuck the admitter in the ground and pressed a convenient button at the top. "It gives off a high pitch frequency noise they can hear."
"No shit!" I practically screeched, expressing everyone else's annoyance as we were all clutching our ears from the aftershock of the noise.
"These are gonna drive them to the school?" Derek asked now that our ears were fine and Chris was distributing the admitters out to us.
"Yes, then it's up to you to get them into the basement." Chris answers.
"Does anyone else want to just rethink the plan where we kill them?" Isaac, I hope, was voicing a bad joke. I growled at him just the same for even suggesting such a thing.
"It's okay Raven, it's going to work." Scott assured me.
"Sorry." Isaac mumbled to me. I just nodded to him and gave him a small, weak smile and entwined my fingers in his for a tight squeeze, letting him off the hook.
"It'll work." Scott said again. Just like that we were off, placing the admitters where they were needed and hopefully Cora and Boyd were following. I picked up my pace and used my abilities to make it to the school, some gymnastics training at work.
I made it to the school and Derek was right behind me. "Hey." I said to grab his attention. I could smell Peter's scent on him and knew that was never a good sign. He turned back to look at me, "Whatever Peter said, just ignore him, well only any of his self-righteous shit, sometimes he does get good information." I commented. He smirked and nodded his head approvingly. Then we separated, getting to our different positions. I was joining Isaac and we could hear their howl.
"They're here." I sang out when we heard the two wolves in question growl at us.
"Oh great." Isaac complained as we turned around to look at Boyd and Cora. We took our stances and they kept growling which I happened to think was rather rude.
"Cora, where are your manners? Tsk, tsk." I joked and Isaac had a small smirk playing on his lips, even if he may have thought me to be insane. Christ Argent ran them towards Derek and instead of going through the school as planned, they changed their minds.
"They're not going through the school, they're going over it." Scott announced the obvious.
"We sort of noticed that Scott." I reprimanded him. We started going after them and planning our next move.
"The doors, someone has to get them open." Chris ordered and Derek went off.
"Someone has to lead them inside." Scott brought up.
"I'll go." Chris began but Isaac interrupted.
"We'll go." Referring to the both of us, "We're faster." I nodded my head and we ran off.
We found them being blinded by flashing arrows, hunter's ammo. They ran into the school and Isaac shut them in. We turned back to find Allison as the one who shot the arrows. "Is that who I think it is?" I asked Isaac, kind of hoping I was seeing things.
"Yeah, that was Allison." He concluded. "Come on, let's go to the others." He suggested and we made our way to the Boiler Room. We found Chris and already knew that they made it there, we kept going. That's when we heard Derek and the others growling. I ended up running right past Isaac with a new found speed.
"Scott the sun is coming up!" I heard Isaac behind me. I made it to the stairs that lead to the room and just caught Scott running in and we followed. We found Derek, in between Boyd and Cora, he was sporting fresh wounds and the other two were just passed out.
"Derek, are you okay?" I asked and he picked his head up, panting.
"There's a teacher, I'll take care of her. Get them out of here." He ordered. I was the first to make a move and picked Cora up off the floor easily while the boys picked up Boyd. They walked off but I held back.
"I'll see you at home Derek, be careful." He nodded his head and I was off after Isaac and Scott.
Boyd had been placed on the sofa while Cora was tucked away in Derek's bed, and I was left with Isaac after Scott left. "I take it my brother took you in?" I asked him.
"Sort of yeah. I'm kind of an orphan." He informed.
"Join the club dude." I answered back looking him straight in the eyes. "This may seem like a strange request but can I hug you?" I asked.
"What?" He shot out with definitely not expecting me to be so straight forward.
"I know it's strange but in the last four months I've been locked up in a vault wasting away and the past 24 hours I had to chase down my sister and my new friend Boyd who went apeshit. I on the other hand didn't, no idea why, and of course I need a damn hug as a way to prove to myself that I am alive and safe and I made it. So to conclude my mindless rambling, can I please have a hug?" I asked after I ended my rant. My question needed no answer because he just wrapped his arms around me and I just let myself fall into his comforting embrace. There was something about Isaac that made this hug just that much better. "Thank you. You are really good at hugging."
"Am I interrupting something?" Derek asked as he walked in. We separated and I looked at him with a huge smile.
"Nothing I'm ashamed off. You still haven't greeted me with a proper hello Derek Hale. I'm disappointed in you." I reprimanded.
"I'm all covered in blood." He pointed out.
"Psh, what's a little blood between siblings. Come over here mister." I demanded and he walked towards me engulfing me in my second hug of the night. His usual bear hug style always leaving me happy but I missed Isaac's arms being wrapped around me. I just fit so well with him, it felt right.
"You don't know how happy I am to see you Rae." He said snuggling me in closer to him.
"I need to breathe Derek." I joked and snuggled in closer as well. Isaac had already ran away the second Derek came in and saw us hugging.
"No, you need to tell me why you are hugging Isaac." He ordered.
"Do you really wanna know?" I asked.
"Okay never mind, can't you be 8 again?" He asked whining that his little sister was all grown up.
"Sorry, no can do bro." I said enjoying my time with my big brother.
