Georgie Lahey looked up at her younger brother as they walked through the forest.
She had spent 2 months in Beacon Hills, since first meeting him. She hadn't had an easy life, for years she was shuffled from one foster home to another. Most of the time the 'families' that took care of her ended up using her. None of them really did want children and it was reflected in the neglect they gave her. She was beaten by some of her foster parents and attacked by some of her foster siblings and had the constant reminder of it, with the scars riddled across her body. She learnt to be tough and resourceful though, you needed to watch your own back when no one else was willing. After 18 years she wanted to find her family. Her mother had died when she was 8, not knowing her Dad or even who he was, she was left with no one. After years of emotional, mental and physical torture she wanted to find the man that had abandoned herself and her mother so readily. The one who had let her slip into nothingness. She resented the man, if he knew about her, he was the reason that her life was so chaotic and she wanted him to know how fucked up the life she lead had made her. She had finally located him in Beacon Hills after relentless searching that drained her, tapping into every resource she could to discover who he was. When she arrived she found out that he had died, his wife had died years ago and his son was killed, serving her 'gracious' country overseas. All she was greeted with when she arrived was a young boy, left on his own just as she had been.
Looking at him now, as leaves crunched beneath their feet she felt sorry for him. Albeit she had grown up with no family and now had no chance of meeting them, Isaac had family. He had them, grew up with them and lost them. That was a greater pain to face then Georgie's. She made the decision shortly after she had met him that she was going to protect him, she wasn't going to let him end up like her, traveling through different foster homes and growing cynical. Isaac was the only family she had left, and she was the only family he had. She was going to look after him from now on and make sure that nothing and no one, ever touched him.
Isaac and Georgie had been walking around a neighboring township when everything changed between them. It was dark and they had been surrounded by a large group of men, their breathing ragged, their steps faulted. Georgie knew how to take care of herself, growing up in foster homes, sometimes you needed to watch you're own back. There were 6 of them though, alcohol oozing off them and she knew she wouldn't be getting out of it un-harmed, she was kicking herself mentally for not realizing how late it was and how decrepit the buildings were around her. This wasn't a good area of town and normally she picked up on those things, having learnt from past experiences.
As they all inched closer to Isaac and herself, one of them had lashed out, retrieving a thin pen knife in his pocket. Isaac jumped in front of Georgie and she wondered how stupid he really was, trying to protect her would only give them more motivation. Watching in horror as he dipped and dodged his way around them she noticed his strength, his speed, his agility. It was unlike anything Georgie had ever seen before. Then when 4 of them had tried to jump him at once, she saw it, the light golden glow of his eyes. She heard his growl, saw fangs fall past his lips and hair sprout across his cheekbones. That's when she decided to run, she was good at that. Being mugged and attacked by 6 drunk men might have been better then what she had just seen though. What she saw, she didn't understand but it wasn't natural and it wasn't something that she could handle. Starting to lose her breath after a few minutes, she slowed under a street lamp, the crash of metal against metal giving her an extra boost of adrenaline to pump through her body, urging her to run again. She ran as fast and as hard as she could in any direction, the streets were bare, with yellow lights dotting along the edge of the foot path. Edging around a corner, he was suddenly there in front of her. His eyes were blue and his teeth were perfectly straight again, it wasn't a trick of her mind though. Georgie knew that she wasn't crazy and that something was going on with the half-brother that she barely even knew.
Her body had started shutting down and she knew she wouldn't be able to run away from Isaac. Instead she was pleading, crying, begging for the first time in years. Anything to make sure that he wouldn't hurt her. Isaac just stood there and stayed calm, his breathing irregular. She looked at him and he almost seem shocked himself. Eventually calming down he slowly walked towards her, his hands raised. His voice was trying to soothe her and she stepped back. Stopping his advance, he stood in front of her and tried to explain everything to her right there and then but this wasn't happening to her. It couldn't be.
It took time for everything to seep in, a long time. Days past as Isaacs texts and phone calls went unanswered. She didn't care what her brother was, he was a monster. Groaning internally as he stepped up to her front door, she was prepared to ignore him, she would cut him out of her life and move away. She didn't need him in her life. Kicking herself mentally, Georgie knew she needed him. She was her brother, her only family and she had only just found him. She was the one that was going to protect him and if having to deal with whatever was going on, meant that she could still have a chance at having a family again... She was going to have to take the risk. She was pissed, she didn't like taking risks.
Isaac raised his hand in front of her, jolting her from her thoughts, they were here. Georgie looked up at the old decapitated building. Cinders had encircled the house, some of the remaining windows had been shattered and weeds grew unattended along the exterior walls. It was a shit hole, but this is where Isaac had wanted to take her, to meet his Alpha. There was sharp intake of breath before she talked, "Are we going in?"
After a few minutes he looked down at her and smiled, "He knows we're here. We're waiting for him to come out." Her shoulders sagged as Isaac remained still. This was important to Isaac and she knew that, after everything they had both been through he had been forced into telling her his darkest secret and now he was inviting her into his alternate world to meet his Alpha. None of this was okay but she was willingly to deal with it. By the way he had told her, his 'Alpha' had convinced her little brother that this was a gift. She had to scoff at the idea, a gift was something that you could return and by her knowledge once, you were bitten you were cursed for the rest of your life.
"Fuck it," she growled and stormed towards the house, autumn leaves crunching underneath her boots and twigs snapping. Even if he didn't know that they were here, she was going to let him know and it wasn't going to be pretty. Isaac tried calling out to her and she turned her head, continuing to stomp closer to the house, "I'll be fucked if I'm going to wait for him to decide when I get to meet this ass tha-"
She had walked directly into something and she knew it couldn't have been the house, wood wasn't that soft and she knew that her judgement of distance wasn't wrong. Losing her balance she stumbled back and looked up at the man that was now standing in front of her, his muscular arms folded, a scowl streaked across his stubble-ridden face. She smirked at him, her blue eyes crinkling at the edges. Isaac walked up and stood closer to the man, edging his shoulder in front of her.
"Derek this is-"
"Georgie Lahey," she pushed her brother to the side, stepped forward and stood directly in front of, Derek. "And if you even think of starting any bullshit with me, I can guarantee that I'll kill you and I won't regret it. You got that!? I'm assuming you're Derek Hale, the asshole who decided it would be a good idea to turn my teenage brother into some supernatural fucking monster." She knew that maybe, her first few words to Isaac's Alpha were harsh, but fuck it, she was harsh and considering the circumstances that they were meeting under, she didn't care what he thought.
Derek's eyebrows raised slightly as his eyes widened and he cocked his head to the left. They stood quietly for a few minutes before she was pulled back by Isaac, shrugging off his hands defensively "Derek. This is my-" Derek lifted his hand up suddenly, motioning to Isaac to be quiet and he was after he rolled his eyes dramatically, being interrupted for the second time. He continued staring down at her.
"What? Are you trying to be brooding and mysterious right now? Because it's not working, you just seem fucking rude to me." She could hear Isaac groan next to her. She didn't care what Derek thought of her, she wanted to know that she wasn't someone who he could mess with, someone that he couldn't target so easily like her brother.
Looking down at her silently, her frustration was rising even further and making her impatient. After a few silent minutes he placed his hand in front of her and nodded, "Derek." She raised her hand to meet his, as soon as his hand met hers it tightened and his whole body tensed. She kept looking directly into his eyes, the brown that was there just seconds ago, turning a bright neon red, as he lips parted again. "Georgiana."