Summary: "Wait Willow, I can explain-" "You abandoned us to start a new pack! There's nothing else to say, Derek...no wait, I have one question. Was it because of me?"
My Note: So, I've had a fanfic account for a while- I love to read from other's point of views, but it's been some time since I've found a story I could really get into. Therefore I have decided to write my own :) It's my first one and I'm a little nervous- so please, for me, have mercy. Thanks guys- I hope you enjoy :) I do not own Teen Wolf.
Chapter 1
There's absolutely nothing better than running through the woods, parkouring off the trunks and boulders and through the branches. There's nothing like the wind through your hair on a breezy moonlit night while listening to whispers of the running streams, feeling the crunch of the earth beneath your feet. It makes the Harper pack remember why they love being who they truly are. They don't have to hide it here, not within the isolated boundaries of the dense eerie woods or with themselves. They're free, they're a pack. A pack without a leader.
Their alpha, Derek Hale, had left them to go find his sister, Laura Hale. Those last few weeks before she left the pack- she was acting different, depressed, lost almost. But how could she be lost? She was in a descent sized, tight knit pack of acquired friends and with her brother as alpha, one of the two only surviving family members she had left in this world. When she was asked by her best friend Willow why she was leaving, she only said, "It doesn't make any sense, Will. I have to find the truth- besides, there is something pulling me back there...I can't explain it, but something is calling me back home. I have to go."
Laura was going back to her and Derek's home town of Beacon Hills in California. She left because she had to. Well, at least that's what Willow told herself to help keep the guilt at bay. It worked for all about two days before she confessed to Derek why his little sister was M.I.A.
"What? Why? And you just let her go- by herself? I thought you were supposed to be her best friend?" Then in a dying whisper he finished, "I thought you were supposed to be my beta?" Derek sounded so disappointed.
Willow choked back her surprise. She knew he'd be upset but she wasn't expecting this, especially not him questioning her position as his beta. In a pack of four females and four other males, Willow won out as beta, over his best guy friend, Riley and his own sister, Laura. How may you ask? Her endurance and stealth, her ability to keep her emotions in check and power down tense situations, and the way she could think fast and put brains over brawns. All were qualities none of the rest had, at least not altogether. Or even two together. And it didn't hurt that the alpha had feelings for her ever since he first laid eyes on the long black haired, blue eyed beautiful gypsy.
An already composed Willow just replied, "She asked me not to," then like a good beta to show her alpha respect she put her head down and finished with a sincere and heartfelt, "I'm sorry."
Derek couldn't stay mad at her. With eyes like hers, no one could be indifferent with her. Besides, Laura was a big girl, making her own decisions for a long time now even with her older brother as alpha. "I have to go after her" he said looking out the window they were standing by, staring at the rising moon. "I really don't want to go back there," he whispered to low for anyone else to hear.
"You won't be alone, Derek." Willow said matter-of-factly.
"No," Derek said before looking back to her and sighing, "I am going alone. I can't just lead a pack into the small conservative town of Beacon Hills- we'll be drawing to much attention to ourselves. Besides, I couldn't ask them to just pick up and leave like that."
"You wouldn't have to ask them. They're your pack they will follow you anywhere, without hesitation. I would follow you anywhere." Willow said not backing down from this. She cared about Derek like he was her older brother, her alpha. She wouldn't let him risk his status, his life like that.
But thinking about how she allowed Laura to just leave almost made her see sense. She didn't stop Laura, she didn't even try, how could she stop Derek. Regaining her momentum she was back at it, Laura was grown, 24 years old. But Derek, he is her alpha, his back is for her to watch. "I'm coming with you." Willow said defiantly.
"You will stay here with the pack and you will lead them in my absence. You don't have a say in this Willow." Derek told her.
After a half hour of arguing about it, Derek had to enforce his alphaness of reminding Willow who's word counted in the end by phasing and showing his teeth to her. She got the message. Like a good beta, Willow backed down.
That was four months ago. And no word from either of them.
My Note: Okay so here is chapter one! FYI on what point in the show I'm in, I don't really know….but he leaves, and season one takes place. I think I will bring the new pack in right when season two starts. The next chapter will be more background info on the Hale's coming to Harper, Wisconsin (which is where they're living at) and the Harper pack. Hope you stick with me
