Summary: AU after the motel episode in season 3. Stiles watched Ethan's face on the bus the morning after all the shit went down in the motel. He saw a change as Ethan looked at him and Scott. He saw an opening and he decided to take advantage of it. If they couldn't defeat the Alpha Pack outright then maybe they could destroy it from the inside. Stiles/Derek, Ethan/Danny, Jackson/Lydia, Allison/Scott, Isaac/Aidan, and Boyd/Cora.

This is going to be completely AU after that one moment in time in the above episode, you need to remember that when reading this. This is a repost of chapter one of a story I had on my other account…for the older readers, thank you for coming back…for the newer ones, enjoy!

Part A-Chapter 1

As Ethan walks back to his seat with Danny Stiles watches the way he moves before scrambling into the spot next to Scott. He wants to tell Scott what he just saw but he's not sure if he should. Scott, Isaac and Boyd all seem really keen on killing the twin Alpha's that Stiles isn't sure Scott will even listen to his theory. Plus he knows Isaac and Boyd are going to listen in to everything they talk about so that they can report back to Derek.

Stiles wishes that he could say he trusts them but he would be lying if he did. After what Scott did to him with Gerard and how Boyd and Isaac acted after they got the bite, the odds are not in either of their favors. He trusts Derek, he really does, but Derek also has a tendency to act without thinking things through and getting himself hurt in the process. Stiles can't take that risk either.

"What's up?" Scott breaks him out of his thoughts.

Stiles turns to look at his friend and stares into his eyes for a moment. After watching Scott glance back at Allison every few seconds from the corner of his eyes he knows Scott isn't the one to go to with his theory. He just can't trust him this time. He feels bad for it but he also wants people to come out of this brewing fight alive and intact.

Stiles shakes his head. "Nothing man, just thinking about what happened last night is all." He fudges the truth a bit.

"I know dude, it was crazy. Thanks for being there for me by the way. I really felt like I was losing my mind."

Stiles hums. "You weren't the only werewolf who felt that way. Besides, that's what brothers do."

Scott smiles at him before not-so-subtly turning back around to watch Allison talk to Lydia. With the way his eyes glaze over Stiles knows he's staring at Allison's lips as she talks. Talk about creepy. Must be a werewolf trait.

Stiles turns sideways in his seat and glances back at Ethan and Danny. They have their heads bent together and Danny's excitedly telling Ethan about something. Ethan has a soft smile on his face and his right hand is gently stroking right under Danny's nipple but off to the side a bit and over the shirt. Stiles almost startles to realize that Ethan is stroking the spot right where Danny's surgical scar is.

And yes Stiles knows Danny has a scar on his chest. The guy practically hates wearing shirts. He's almost worse than Derek. So of course that means Stiles has looked.

Ethan must sense him watching because he lifts his head and looks right at Stiles. He gives Stiles an inquisitive look and again Stiles sees the same thing in his eyes that he saw just moments before. Stiles gives a subtle shake of the head, a quick quirk of the lips and turns back around in his seat.

He definitely saw what he thought he saw.

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Two days later he's sitting on Lydia's bed nearly ripping his hair out of his scalp. Sometimes Lydia can be really dense. Right now she's pacing the bedroom and listing off all of the reasons she has for not needing to help Stiles with his theory and growing plan. She's currently on point number thirty six and Stiles has never wanted her to shut up more than he does in this moment.

"Can you shut up already?" He finally blurts out just as she reaches point number forty. "This is serious Lydia. The Alpha pack is strong and with only two half assed packs that don't even liking working together fighting them they are just going to keep beating us down until we're to hurt to fight and then they're going to finish us off one by one. If what I saw in Ethan's eyes was accurate than we have a real shot of taking the Alpha's down from the inside. I need your help and I also think it's time we finally let Danny in on what's going on."

Lydia stares at him for a moment before huffing and plopping down on her vanity chair. "Why should I help? I mean, I want the Alpha pack gone too, obviously, but you won't even tell me what you think you saw in Ethan's eyes so how am I supposed to help?"

Stiles sighs. "You have to trust me on this Lydia. I know what I saw and I know of a real way to fix this whole Alpha pack mess that way we can concentrate on the druid and getting rid of it or him or her or whatever. We need to get Danny in on it because we're going to need another set of smart hands to help and he's just the person to do it." he insists.

Lydia is looking at him with that same calculating look she gives him every time he pretends not to know the answer to a question a teacher asks. Everyone knows he's pretty smart but they, and Lydia, don't need to know that he's a genius who has scored a perfect score on the SATs every time he takes it which started back in fifth grade.

He looks all around her room as he pretends to not notice her staring at him. Two years ago he would have been preening under her attention but as of lately and his newish found discovery of liking dick not so much. Lydia is still beautiful to him but he's not in love with her anymore. He never actually was. He thought he was but he was only in love with the idea of being with someone like her. Someone beautiful and popular and fearless. Someone who knows what they want and isn't afraid to step over people to get it. After actually getting to know her these last few months he's realized quite a few things about her and himself and the love he thought he felt turned out to just be repressed friendship. Once he stopped acting like a love sick goon and she stopped acting like a stuck up bitch they realized they have a lot in common and now spend more time hanging out like normal people. He thinks it's a lot better this way.

She finally sighs and gives up trying to read him but she still doesn't seem so convinced. "I'll help but I still want to know what's in it for me. You said I have to stop fooling around with Aidan and he's the only fun thing about all of this crap going around town." She whines.

Stiles resists rolling his eyes because he knows she hates it and will take back her offer to help if she sees him doing it but he does shake his head at her. "You need to stop screwing around with Aidan for two reasons. One, because he's just as ay as his brother and he pretty much pops a boner every time Isaac walks in the room and two, because I don't think Jackson is going to like smelling another guy on you when he gets back to town." He nearly snaps out.

This isn't how he meant to tell her about Jackson but he needs her to get her head out of her own cunt and get on board with keeping the people of Beacon Hills alive and safe. Lydia may not be completely heartless but she is still very conceited and thinks of herself first most of the time.

He watches as her entire body freezes up and she stares at him wide eyed. He knows she hasn't talked to Jackson since he left for London but he also knows that she still loves him deeply and would drop everything to be with him if she could. Her parents may be trying to buy her affections ever since the divorce but they aren't dumb enough to let her move to London to live with her boyfriend and his parents. They'd end up with a pregnant daughter before they could even finalize the divorce papers. Not a good idea at all.

"What?" she croaks.

Stiles sighs again and rubs a hand down his face. "I've been talking to Jackson ever since he left for London and we've been working on a way to get him back into Beacon Hills for good again. His and mother have already started their new firms and they can't leave but we've been working on getting them to either let him stay at their old home or letting him move in with a close friend until he turns eighteen next summer. I've been talking to my dad about it. The only way Jackson can live alone is if he gets emancipated from his parents but then that would take away his trust fund and his college fund so we can't do that. The second idea was having my dad offer to take Jackson in until he turns eighteen. Dad said yes but we're still waiting for Mr. Whitmore to get back from his business trip so Jackson can ask him. This was going to be a surprise but since I need your help with this and you'll only take a bribe to do it then the love of your life should be a good enough bribe don't you think?" he smirks.

Lydia is still sitting frozen but Stiles can tell she hasn't gone into shock or anything because her jaw is ticking and she's blinking like a hundred miles per hour practically. "I'm sorry. Can you repeat that please?" she finally asks in a small voice.

Stiles chuckles and nods. "You heard correctly Lydia. Jackson and I have been talking all summer and we're pretty sure we've found a way for him to move back to Beacon Hills." He says simply this time.

Lydia still doesn't look like she believes him but there is a bright spark of hope in her eyes that means she won't question him…too much. "How have you and Jackson been talking all summer when he hated you before he moved?"

Stiles shrugs. "About a week after everything went down, right before he left for London, I went to his house to talk to him about things. Derek was helping him learn to physically control the wolf but I wanted to take him some books and papers on how to anchor himself and stuff like that. In true Jackson fashion he refused to read anything and being me I refused to give up because I know how Jackson is. I read the main stuff to him and things just went from there. I told him I was going to call him once a week to see how his control was going and after the first two weeks I started calling more often and then he started calling me too when he needed help or when he just wanted to talk. I don't know, one day we just started talking about him coming back and then we started plotting on how we could make that happen. When I told my dad he was all for the plan now we just need to talk to Jackson's dad."

"Why didn't he call me if he needed something?" Lydia asks, her voice sounding distantly hurt.

"Because he couldn't. The second he would have heard your voice he would have lost all that control he spent weeks learning and he would have hurt something. Without any of us there to help him and to talk him out of it he wouldn't have been able to explain it to anyone and he would have exposed himself. That's why him coming back was going to be a surprise, even though he's under control there are many things that could set him off and you're one of them."

Lydia sighs and nods her head. "I guess that makes sense. What do you need me to do?" she asks.

Stiles grins. "I need you to finish completing the Bestiary and find everything there is to know about Alpha packs." He says.

"How am I going to do that? Chris Argent has the Bestiary and he and Allison are supposed to be out of the family business for good." She snips at him.

Stiles rolls his eyes. "I copied the Bestiary onto a flash drive of my own before I gave Chris his dads copy back. I'm been adding my own information to it but I need the thing translated in order to figure out what information I already have and what I need to add to it. Plus I need it translated so I can turn the information into an actual book to carry around and add things too. Flash drives are too easily destroyed or copied or given a virus and I can't take that chance on the Bestiary." He explains.

Lydia nods and holds her hand out. Stiles reaches into in pocket and pulls out the flash drive before dropping it into her outstretched hand. She palms it for a moment, rubs it between her fingers and then holds it up to eye level so she can study it. Stiles rolls his eyes and scuffs. "You can sniff it too if you want. It's just a regular flash drive filled with information. Just like the kind we use for school." He can't help but say sarcastically.

It's moments like these that Stiles is glad he's not in 'love' with Lydia anymore because the old love struck Stiles would barely be able to get a sentence out in front of her let alone baiting her to argue back with him or bribing her into helping him. The old Stiles would have given up after the first eyebrow lift and walked away with his invisible tail tucked between his legs. Stiles is definitely glad he figured out his feelings and made a new friend.

"So what does your plan entail you to do?" she enquires.

"I'm going straight to the source."