Chapter 1: Tattoo
Summer break was almost over, Alice and Stiles help Scott throughout the summer, after he and Allison broke up, three months since Issac took off and went to find Erica and Boyd. And since the break away almost over, Scott and Alice went out with Stiles and the twins went to a tattoo shop.
They both gave the artist the pictures of what they wanted, "Good thing you two drew me pictures." he tells them. Scott was in a chair, his sleeve rolled up. As Alice was lying down on a leather operating bed, her shirt rolled up, exposing her back the man and is co-worker walk up to each one of the twins, "Hey Scott, Alice, you sure you don't want one like this?" Stiles asks them, showing the a drawing similar Kanima, they look at him, not impressed. "Too soon?" Alice rolls her eyes
"You two sure about this, I mean these things are pretty pediment man." Stiles states, tossing the tattoo book away. "We're not changing our minds, Stiles." Alice tells him. "Okay why two bands and why Derek's tattoo?" he asks them. "I just like it." they both answer at the same time. "Okay, but does it have some sort of meaning? You know." Stiles asks them. "Getting a tattoo means something." Scott tells him. "He's right, Tattooing goes back thousands of years." the artist working with Scott states, "The Tahitian word Tatua means to leave a mark, like a rite of passage." the other said working with Alice. They look at Stiles with a smug look on their faces.
"See, they get it." Alice states. "They're covered in Tattoos, guys. Literally." Stiles states. "Okay you ready?" the man asks Alice. She laid down, her arms tuck in close to her chest, "You don't have problem with needles do you?" he asks her, "Nope, I'm good." she tells him and he started, Alice stiffens under the needle as it touches her back. (no, it not a tamp tattoo or on the upper back. It's half a inch or three down the middle back.) then there was a thud in the back. "Did Stiles just pass out?" she asks them. "Yeah, I believe so." Scott tells her. She sighs and continue to lay still.
~8~8~8~
Then the three entered the car, "How do they feel?" Stiles asks them, placing an ice pack on his head. "Kinda burns." they answers, "Yes, you just had your skin stab with a hundred, thousand times, with a needle." Stiles tells them. "Yeah, but I don't think it's suppose to hurt like this." Alice looks over her shoulder at her back.
Stiles sets the ice pack down, and the twin jolt in pain, "No, definitely not suppose to hurt like this." Scott groans as Alice moans in pain, griping the two front seats. "I got to take this thing off." Scott groans, "No, no, no, no. stop, aw Scott please." Stiles looks away. Scott look of his ice pack and saw the tattoo fade away and his arm was good as new. Alice turns around and took off her ice pack as well. Scott lifts up her dark blue tank-top, exposing her lower and middle back and saw her tattoo, similar to Derek's fade away.
He sigh and lets her tank-top drop, "They healed." Scott states. "Ah... thank god, I'd hated them." Stiles mumbles and the twins look at him, Stiles looks at them seeing that they were not happy at all. "Sorry." he tell them, started his jeep and they took off down the high way. Then Alice's phone right, "What's that?" Scott asks her, Alice pulls out her phone and looks at it.
"It's a text from Rosalie; she said that they just got back from Paris and are arriving in Beacon Hills as we speak." she tells her, then Alice texts back. "Just got my first tattoo, but then suddenly healed BTW. How was Paris?" she text back and send it. "We didn't text each other this summer, I don't think she's coming back." Scott tells Stiles, Alice looks out the window and saw Allison and Lydia, she then texts Allison, to see how she was doing.
Text Mode Activated:
Alice: Hey how have you been?
Allison: I'm okay, you?
Alice: I'm great, tried to get a tattoo, but
my healing progress screw that. =(
Allison: Sorry about that, how's Scott doing?
Everything alright?
Alice: Yeah, he's still waiting for you
Stiles is still waiting for Lydia, you
know the usual. 7U7
Allison: Haha, any news of Matthew and Rosalie?
Alice: Yeah they just text me, they just got back from
Paris and should be in Beacon Hills any moment.
Allison: Good, it was nice hearing from you.
Alice: You too, Allison. You too.
Text Mode Ended.
Alice looks away from her phone and saw Scott panicking; Allison spotted. Alice just watch with amusement. Lydia drove off, even with the light still red. "No, they probably didn't see us." Stiles states, Alice shook her head at him, then the light turned green and Stiles drove right behind them. "What are you doing?" Scott asks him, "Driving." stiles tells him. "We're right behind them." Scott states, "Okay do you see any turns?" Stiles asks him. "I don't want them to feel like we're following them." Scott points out, "Well what do you want me to do?" Stiles asks him remaining perfectly calm, "I don't know, anything." Scott tells him. Then Stiles slams on the brakes and the come to a stop, not long after, Lydia stops her car as well. The three look at each other, confused on why they stop. Then out of nowhere, Lydia and Allison scream as something slams into the front of the car. They three dot out of the jeep and ran up to Lydia and Allison, who quickly got out of the car.
"Are you okay?" Scott asks Allison, standing by her as Stiles did the same for Lydia. Alice walks up to the deer that ram itself into the car, "It came out of nowhere." Lydia states, "Are you hurt?" Stiles asks her. "It ran right into us." she states. "Are you okay?" Scott asks Allison, "Yeah, I'm okay." she tells him. Alice snaps a picture of the dead animal and sent it to Derek, Rosalie, and Matthew. "Well I'm not okay. I'm totally freaking out. How the hell does it run into us?" Lydia snaps.
Alice place her phone away and slowly place her hand on the dead deer. "I saw it's eyes, it was like it was... crazy." Lydia states. Scott stood next to his sister, "Alice?" he asks her. "Actually, Lydia, it was... terrified." Alice states then looks down the road; mist looms like a sealed gate and the full moon sat high in the sky, something must have been horrifying to terrorized the deer to run to it's death.
But that's the question, what terrified the deer and why?
~8~8~8~
Later at the hospital Issac was rolled into the front, "Hey wait a minute, I know this one." Melissa tells them, "What happened Issac?" she asks him. "The girl, she worse okay?" he tells her, "Are you not healing?" he asks him, "I will, will you just please..." Issac asks her. "Can you take him?" she ask a fellow doctor. Then ran to the woman, "Hey, hey, hey." Melissa took her hand, "Find them. I have to find them." she mumbles. "What are you saying?" Melissa asks her. "I have to... I have to tell them." she states. "Who?" she asks.
"The Alphas. Find the Alphas" the woman answers. "What to you want with Derek and Peter Hale?" Melissa asks her, "No." she mumbles, the Melissa stop walking along side her, "Not Hale... McCall. Scott and Alice McCall." she mumbles aloud.
~8~8~8~
Later in the morning, Scott was doing chin ups, while reading a book as Alice was in her room, doing one hand push up and reading a novel. Then she heard her computer go off, she then stood up and saw it was congratulating her on the first day of school. She sighs and touch her back. "here we go again." she mumbles and went to get dress for school.
Alice wore tight dark blue jean, a grey tank-top and a short dark brown leather jacket. Then she pulls on black boots, stored her in the sheath inside and walks into her bathroom; she pulls back her hair into a half low ponytail. Yellow high lights in her bands and she started to brush her teeth, washes her face and started to put on a little amount of make-up on her face. She smiles to herself in the mirror, walks out of her bathroom, grabs her school bag and headed out, but not without her car keys.
~8~8~8~
Scott pulls up at the school on his dirt bike and Alice pulls up in her new car; a silver fisker karma. Alice steps out of her car, bag swung over shoulder and she waves at her brother, Scott waves back at her, and she spotted two fancy motorcycles.
She tilts her head at that, but shook her head, locking her placing her keys in her pocket and walks into the school, meeting up with Rosalie, Matthew, Stiles and Scott.
~8~8~8~
"You two want to ask Derek for help? Why, why?" Stiles asks them, "Because he has the Triskele tattoo on his back, the one like Alice wants. So there has to something to do without healing, right." Scott points out. "Yeah, but still does he have his hands full?" Stiles asks them. Pointing to the two 'Missing' pictures of Erica and Boyd. "Look, here's the applications for the career adviser, I need to them sold to." the principle tells the vice-principle, the five peek into the office.
"And whatever happen to the library while I was gone. I want it cleared out. And what the hell is this?" he states, holding up a broad sword. The five exchange looks. "Go, go, go." Stiles tells them and they quickly walk pass the office. "So, Rosie, Matt. How was Paris?" Alice asks them, "Oh it was fun, no joke." Rosalie loops her arm around Matthew's arm. "It's no lie that it's the city of romance." Matthew then perks Rosalie on the cheek. "Oh, I got you something." Rosalie digs through her hand bag and pulls out a white shiny bracelet with the letters, R and A, that dangled from it. "Oh my god thank you, Rosie." Alice states and she let Matthew place it on her wrist. "Hey, I see you're still wearing this." Matthew flicks at the heart shape sapphire gem. "Of course I'm wearing it, my boyfriend gave to me after all." Alice tells him, "Didn't Derek, tell you that's a family heirloom?" Stiles asks her, she looks at him.
"More the reason why I can't loose this necklace." she states, Rosalie giggles and they all walk into literature class, Alice sat behind Scott, Rosalie sat in front of Matthew, who was right next to Alice. Then Lydia sat next to Stiles, leaving Allison to seat in front of Scott. Then everyone's phones went off, Alice opens her and read the text.
"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds and the tranquil water way, leading to the utter most ends of the earth. Flowed somber under an overcast sky seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. This is the last line to the first book, we're going to read." the teacher tells them, Alice place her phone away and sighs, "It is also the last text you'll receive in this class. Phones off everyone." she tells them, walking behind her front desk.
~8~8~8~
Everyone in the classroom were writing down in their notebook, Allison passes a note to Scott, who quickly takes it. 'Can we talk?' it said. Scott went to write something down, but then the principle walks into the class and whispers something into the teacher's ear. He nods at him and he took off. "Mr. and Ms. McCall." she calls out. Alice and Scott shot their heads up, the teacher motions them to the front of the class, they then pack their stuff up and walk outside the class.
"I'm sure it's an emergency that your mother need you two to leave school, but I'm going to give a warning, the nicest possible way. I am well aware of your attendance recorded, Mr. McCall. I don't want you to slip back into old habits and you Ms. McCall I don't want you to start forming habits." she tells them. They nod at her. "We won't, it's going to be different this year." Scott tells her, "Resolutions are good if you stick with them, Scott." she tells him. "I will, I promise I won't be an ephemeral." Scott tells her and walks off. Alice looks at her brother, she giggles a bit and catches up with him. "Ephemeral?" Alice asks him. "Yep." he answers, Alice just laughs a they walk out of the school.
Alice walks up to her car and Scott walks up to his dirt bike, "Let's move out." Alice states, she opens her door, tosses her bag into the passenger side and took off, Scott follows after her.
~8~8~8~
"Why didn't you tell us before?" Scott asks Melissa as both her children walk side by side with her. "Honestly I was hoping I didn't have to." she tells them, Alice step next to her brother. "What do you mean?" Alice asks her. "I mean everything that you two have been doing, the extra reading, summer school, saving up for the bike and selling the SUV, which scares me half to death, honey, sweetheart. I didn't want to disrupt a good rhythm." she tells them Scott steps in front of her as Alice place her hand on Melissa's shoulder.
"Mum, it's not going to stop, We're going to be better this year. Better students, better son and daughter, better friends, better everything, we promise." Scott tells her, Alice nods in agreement. "Okay, he's in room 15 if he isn't already in surgery." she tells them. "Thank you." Scott kisses her cheek, then took off. "Thanks mum." Alice kisses her other and catches up with her brother. Melissa sighs and walks off, unknown to them, the woman that help Issac walks along the way, trying her best to go unseen.
They walk into the elevator, waiting for it to close, just when it was about it, a walking stick was push into the doors making them open. The twins look out and saw a blind man walk into the small room. "Will you hit the button for the second floor please?" he asks them. Alice presses the button and the doors close, Alice leans against the walk, twitching her heel repeatedly. "Do you always do that?" the blind man asks her. She looks at him and stops. "Sorry." she apologizes, "It's quiet alright, I was just curious." he tells her, "It's a habit of mine, no special reason to it." she tells him, with a smiles. "Indeed." he states, then the doors open, Scott steps out, Alice went to follow him, but the blind man grips her wrist. "You wouldn't mind helping me out, would you?" he asks her, Scott stops and looks at them, "Umm, sure." she tells him and he place his hand on her shoulder, leading him out of the elevator.
"Thank you, you are a kind child, heart full of gold." the blind man tells her, she nods that him. "Well, good day sir, hope you find what you're... well you know." Alice states, trying not to offend him. He smiles and walks off, then the two, follow after Issac's scent. They walk down the hallway, turning from corner to corner and then they saw a man wearing romeos and a doctor's outfit, walks into the elevator. Alice then turns and looks at him, Scott did the same. Issac was out cold in the wheel chair and the man turns and looks at them, then he presses the button to level 3, with his claw.
Alice and Scott flick out their claws, fangs showing and they growled at him, the man flick out his other claws. Alice and Scott took off at their high speed as the elevator closes. They both jump in, Alice flips to regain her balance as Scott slips against the floor. The door closes after they land inside. Scott and Alice were both shifted, eyes glowed yellow as the man was shifted as well, but his eyes glowed red.
They growled at him as he roared, then grabs Scott and slams him up against the wall, Issac rolls to the side a bit, Alice grips the man's arm and bite down hard, breaking the skin and drawing blood. He roars, throwing her off him and she back into the wall, slamming against it. She let out a yelp, then the man grabs at Scott again, throwing him at the other wall and Scott lands on the ground. He looks up at the man and growls then the man grabs Scott and throws him up against the ceiling, Scott lands on the floor again. Alice slashes at the man's side.
He roars again, looks at her and grips her throat. Scott stood up and the man grips his throat as well lifting them off of the ground. Alice grips at his wrist clawing at it. As Scott grips the other one. "Do you realize what you two are dealing with?" he asks them, Alice gags a little, but keep her glare.
"I'm an Alpha." he growls. The doors then opens and the man was stab in the back with claws. Alice and Scott drops to the floor, Alice coughs a little when air rushes back into her lungs. They both lean against the walls as Derek stood next to him. "So am I." he states and throws the man out of the elevator, the door then closes. Derek then looks down at them. "Aren't you two suppose to be in school?" he asks them, Alice huffs, blowing out a strain of hair as Scott relaxes against the wall.
~8~8~8~
They then arrive at the Hale estate, "We got a serious problem at school, in Ms. Blake's class..." Stiles informs Scott over the phone, "Can you tell me later?" Scott asks him. "Nope, pretty sure this is qualifies." Stile tells him. "Alright, then meet us at Derek's. Bring Matthew and Rosalie too." Scott tells him.
"Derek's house, what? What the hell are you two doing at..." Stiles went to argue, "Just meet us here, okay?" Scott asks him and hung up his phone. Derek sets Issac down on the table. Alice went up to Issac with worry in her eyes, Derek kneels down. "Is he going to be okay?" Alice asks him, Derek looks up at her, knowing that she was worry about her friend, he nods and moves a few of the wood out of the way. "You aren't still living here, are you?" Scott asks. "No. the county took it over, there's something here that I need, to help here a wound from an Alpha." Derek tells him. "But it did healed." Scott states, "Not on the inside." Derek picks up a few flowers. "Hey are you going to tell me who that was back there, that Alpha?" Scott asks him, Derek looks up at him, Alice stood neck to her brother.
"A rival pack. It's my problem. I know you want to help and you two did. Now go home. Go back to being teenagers." Derek tells them, walking over to Issac. The two went to leave, but then remember their healed Tattoos. Scott looks over at Alice and she nods.
"Hey Derek... if you want to pay back that favor now... there is something you can do for us." Scott tells him, Derek just looks at the twins, wondering what they had in mind.
~8~8~8~
"Is it me or is Beacon hills turning into more like beacon for the totally bazaar and supernatural?" Lydia asks Allison as she looks at herself in the mirror. Allison went to turn around as Lydia closes her locker. "Where's Scott and Alice McCall?" the woman that rescued Issac was standing in front of them. "You're Allison right?" she asks again. "Yeah how do you know me?" Allison asks her, "Where's Scott and Alice?" she asks again.
"They had to leave class early." Allison tells her, "Are they coming back?" she asks, gripping Allison's arm. "Hey easy on the fatality.." Lydia's arm was grab as well. She grips them tightly, bruising their skin. She then looks pass them, seeing the identical twins looking at her. She then lets go of their arms and look off running. "Huh, she bruise me." Lydia states. "Huh, me too." Alice states, looking at her room.
"Come on, lets get you girls out of here. School can wait another day." Chris tells the girls. Lydia walks to the doors leading outside, "Sweetheart?" Chris walks up to Allison. "Hey, you don't have to worry about this anymore, remember our agreement? We stay in Beacon Hills, only if we stay out of this." Chris tells her. Then leads her out of the school, along with Lydia.
~8~8~8~
Later that night, after taking care of Issac and Stiles, Rosalie, and Matthew arrives that the house. Scott had his jacket removed as Alice had both her jacket and tank-top removed, wearing a red lace bra. The twins sat in the chairs, Alice sat backwards in her. Derek's eyes glowed red, looking that their tattoo.
"Yeah I see them. Two bands and the Triskele spiral. Right?" he asks them "What does it mean?" Derek asks Scott about his tattoo. "I don't know. It's just something I trace with my fingers." Scott then traces the bands in the dust covered wall. "Why is this so important to you?" Derek asks him, Scott looks over at his sister. She smiles at him. "Do you know what the word tattoo mean?" Scott ask him, Alice turns around in her chair, sitting chis cross. "To mark something." Stiles tells him, Derek glares up at him.
"No that's Tahitian, in Samoan, it means open wounded." Alice states, drawing their attention. "I knew, Alice and I wanted to get a tattoo when we turned 18. we always wanted one. But we both decided to get them now, as a reward." Scott tells him, "For what?" Derek asks him. "For not calling or texting Allison all summer." Scott answer. "And for not blaming myself, for what happened with the whole Jackson, Matt and Gerard problem." Alice states, looking at her hands. "Even I really wanted to, even when it was so hard not to. I was trying to give her the space she wanted." Scott then sighs. "Four mouths later, it still hurts. It feels like a, uh-" Scott pauses.
"Like an open wound." Matthew states. "Yeah." Scott mumbles and looks over at Alice, "When the whole Kanima problem was over, I thought about the people that weren't so lucky to make it out, I wanted to hate myself for what happen. But I knew I couldn't, because no matter how much I will hate myself. I can't change the facts that I'm alive and they're dead." Alice then ran her hand through her hair, "Four mouths pass and here I am still thinking about it, knowing it still hurts." she tells them.
"So why my pack mark and not another tattoo?" Derek asks her. She looks at him, "I don't know, when I was going to get myself a tattoo, it was the first thing that pop inside my head, I guess I wanted to be apart of your pack, even though, I'm an Omega." she tells him. Derek nods at her, then pulls out a blow torch. "The pain is going to be greater then you felt." Derek warns them. "Oh – great." Stiles mumbles, "Do it." Scott tells him, Alice watches as Derek starts the torch.
"Oh wow, that's a – that's a lot for me. So I'm going to take that as my cue. I'm gonna wait outside." Stiles tells him. "Nope. You're gonna help hold him down." Derek tells him. Then pushes Stiles back, he then walks up behind Scott and held onto his shoulders. Derek grips his wrist and push the torch to the two bands. Scott groans in pain, his fangs were bared and eyes glowed yellow, he roars out as the smell of burning flesh fill the room.
Then after a half an hour Scott passes out, then Derek looks at Alice. She turns around in her chair, pulling her hair over her shoulder. Matthew and Rosalie hold her arms tightly as Stiles held her shoulders, "Remember Stiles you have to really hold her down, females can really pack a punch." Derek warns him, Stiles looks at Alice with horror, she shrugs. Then felt the burning hot fire scorching her skin. Alice struggles against them as she shifts into her wolf.
"Hold her down!" Derek tells them. Now finally shifts. Alice lets out a roar, as the smell of burning flesh became stronger. Then darkness took her.
~8~8~8~
Then an hour later the two jump awake, covering in their sweat, Scott looks at his arm, seeing his had the two bands, he then looks at Alice's back and saw she had the Triskele spiral tattoo. Then they look at the four, Stiles was surprise it work. They both smiled, "It work." Scott tells them.
Then Scott was given a new shirt as Alice pulls her tank-top back on along with her dark brown jacket. "Well looks pediment to me." Stiles looks at Scott, Tattoo, "Yeah, we need something pediment in our lives, with everything always changing. Everything so Ephemeral." Scott tells him. Studying for the PAST?" Stiles asks him, "Yep." Scott answers. "Nice." Stiles mumbles and Scott went to open the door. Then realizes something was different. "You painted the door." Scott calls out, Alice looks at Rosalie, Matthew and Derek. "Why did you paint the door?" Scott asks him. "Go home Scott." Derek tells him. "And why only one side?" Scott asks again.
Then he flicks out his claws, Alice buries her face into her hands and sighs. Then he started to scratch at the paint, "Scott." Derek walks over to him. Scott then finally uncovers the symbol that was painted into the wood. "The birds at school and the deer last night. Just like the night when Alice and I got bit by the Alpha."
Scott points out, then looks out Derek, Alice pulls her face out of her hands and looks at her brother. "How many are there?" Scott asks him. "A pack of them." Derek answers, "An Alpha pack." Alice answers. "All of them? How does that even work?" Stiles asks them. "I hear there's some kind of a leader, he's called Deucalion." Matthew tells them.
"We all know they have Boyd and Erica. Alice, Matthew, Rosalie, Issac, Peter and I have been looking for them for the past four mouths." Derek tells the two boys. "Say you find them. How do you deal with an Alpha pack?" Scott asks him, "With all the help I can get." Derek tells him, Scott and Stiles eyes each other. "Where is she?" Issac calls out. The six look over at Issac who was now awake. "Where's the girl?" Issac asks them, they all exchange looks. "Issac what girl?" Alice asks of him.