First time trying teenwolf, hope you all enjoy
6 years earlier.
The heat radiating off the burning house, was still going strong regardless of the amount of water the fire fighters were dousing on it. Police had the area sectioned off, the dark forest was illuminated with the glow of the fire and the blue and red of police lights.
A small group of seemingly, innocent bystanders stood by the police car's. One of them a girl of ten years old had collapsed to the ground, her wails echoed around them. A sixteen year old boy was crouched down beside her, keeping close to her on the orders of his older sister. Tears streamed down his own face as he watched the devastation in front of him.
His sister stood off to the end of the police car talking to some officers, with his more advanced hearing, he could hear the devastation in her voice. He took his attention off his sisters conversation when it turned to people who could have been responsible, the waves of guilt flooded over him.
He focused his attention on the girl in front of him, her body trembling as she sobbed, her breathing laboured. Her small frame looked even smaller as her body curled in on itself, he pulled her from the ground and brought her onto his lap. Holding her tightly to himself.
"You need to draw yourself in, Rose" he muttered to the small girl, "You need to let them put the fire out".
He felt her small hand gripped at his shirt, another wave of sobs broke from her mouth as she nodded against his chest. He kept his grip on her tight as he felt her start trying to control herself. She muttered to herself focusing on the words letting them guide her back to control.
The fires intensity started to slowly diminish with each word she muttered, the fire fighter were soon winning over the flames and soon the forest around them was only lit with the lights of the police cars.
While his sister was still talking to the officers another approached the two of them. He knelt down in front of the pair putting a hand on the boys shoulders.
"We need to get you two out of here" he told the boy as he slowly stood and offered a helping hand to the boy who shrugged it off. He pulled himself off the ground with the girl still clutched to his chest. The officer opened the door of one of the police cars doors and helped the boy in.
Once the pair were safely in the car he proceeded to open the door for the older girl before placing himself behind the steering wheel.
The drive to the police station was nearly completely silent with the exception of the girl whimpering and the boys soft muttering of comfort to her. The officer was consistently looking at the pair of them as he drove feeling his own heart going out to them.
Once they had reached the station the officer lead them through a back door, taking them to a bench in front of the sheriffs office.
"Miss Hale, we're going to need to speak with both you and your brother" another officer who had followed in another police car stated as he approached them.
"Please, its Laura and I don't know that Derek would know anything that could be helpful to you" Laura spoke her voice was soft.
"He could have seen something that could help" the officer told her.
Laura went to speak again but was interrupted by Derek.
"Its okay Laura, I would like to help if I can" his voice shook slight. Rose who had been on his lap the entire time was now standing quietly beside him, her hands clutched tightly to his shirt her face pressed into his side.
"I wanna help too" she muttered though it wasn't loud enough for any of the officers to hear only the two lycan's heard it clearly.
"Well Derek, we will need you and your sister to come with us to one of the interview rooms" the officer told the pair, as Derek attempted to step away, Rose tightened her grip on his shirt.
Derek gentle eased her fingers form his shirt and knelt down in front of her.
"Don't worry, you're safe here. I'll be back, I promise" Derek told her, he watched as she bit her lip and gave a nod. He put his hand on her head as he stood back to up and followed the officer to the interview room.
"How about you take a seat and I'll get you something to drink" the officer that had driven them said to her.
Rose sat herself at the far end of the bench closest to the direction of where Derek and Laura had been lead. The office around her was quiet which was due to the amount of officers that where at the now burnt out Hale house. A few younger officers sat at their desks and a women sat in the main foyer.
The officer that had driven them came back with a child's cup with a picture of an animated detective on it. Small wisps of steam floated from the cup. She eyed it for a few seconds before he sat it down on the bench next to her.
"My son often spends time here, so we always have a ready supply of hot chocolate and if you were hungry I could get you a doughnut" he offered her as he crouched down in front of her. Rose shook her head as she took a small sip of the hot chocolate.
"Do you know of anyone we can call to come and be with you" the officer questioned again Rose merely shook her head, her mother had been the only person she had and now she was gone. The officer looked the girl over, she was one of the girls who was in the same year as his son.
"Maybe you know my son, his names Stiles" he got a small smile from Rose.
"He's in my class" she said softly, "he's funny".
"So I've heard" Officer Stilinski was about to ask her something when another officer called to him. He stood from his crouched position heading to the officer, Rose took a small sip from her mug, though she had calmed down considerably the pain was still too fresh.
Her mother had been fair skinned and even fairer hair and was one of the strongest witches in Beacon Hill. But with the fire had also brought down their coven. Many of the member where with the wolves down in the basements, her mother and her coven used their powers to aid the wolves into becoming better controlled. Their good intentions ended up causing their deaths.
Her father had died when she was only seven right before her, the offical report was that he had a heart attack but her mother had told her he had been poisoned. Rose had never known who but she knew her mother tried hunting the person down.
Rose bowed her head as she looked into the cup, the chocolate swirled around within the mug and her blond hair fell forward creating a curtain between her and everything else. She stared intensely into the drink letting herself become entranced by its patterns.
"Show me who did this" she hissed under her breath. Images started floating to the top of the cup, one of a girl with a wolf necklace, another image of five figures shrouded in darkness and the last was of her mother screaming, fire incasing her body despite her efforts to keep it away.
She jerked the cup, letting it fall out of her hand and landing with an echoing clatter on the floor. Hot chocolate rushed from the cup running under the near by desks. Fresh tears started running down her face, her breathing coming in pants once again and dark spots starting to appear in front of her eyes.
She started to feel gravity pulling her forwards as her head felt more and more lighter, Rose saw the floor coming at her at an alarming pace but was helpless to stop it. The last thing she remember from that night was a warm arm snaking itself around her body and someone whispering.
"I've got you, its going to be all right".
Present day.
Rose Veller stood in front of her full length mirror in her bathroom, the noise of her blow dryer echoed off the tiled walls as she dried her freshly coloured waist length hair. It was the first day of school and keeping up her tradition of her hair was now a bright and vibrant electric blue.
Already dressed making sure to leave her hair till last, she wore a long sleeved shirt that dipped low at the front that showed off her cleavage that she had finally come into over the summer. She followed this with a pair of skinny leg black jeans and a pair of sneakers.
She looked herself over, during the summer she had grown a couple of inches but still just reaching 5"3', even with her small growth spurt she had filled out in other areas looking more womanly. After drying her hair she moved onto straightener.
She didn't hear the knock that came at her door from her legal guardian, but she let out a scream as she spotted him in the mirror.
"Shit, Alan you scared the crap out of me" Rose exclaimed as she turned the straightener off flicking her hair over her shoulder, letting it cascade down her back.
Alan Deaton was a seemingly normal man, most people liked him and he was well respecting within the Beacon Hill community. The night after Rose had fainted at the police station Deaton had received a call about his God daughter.
After seeing her sedated body lying on a hospital bed his heart went out to her, she had lost the only family she had ever know too early in her short life. To avoid her going into state care, Alan was more than happily to take her in, becoming her legal guardian.
Being the Druid Emissary to The Hale Family he had a lot of practice with helping wolves control themselves but most witches where taught by their covens. But Eve Veller's, Rose's mother, coven had been the only one in Beacon Hills and many were now weary of coming close to the town.
"I'm just letting you know that Stiles is waiting out the front" Alan told her a small smile present on his lip.
"Oh" Rose looked at her watch on her wrist and let a string of curses run from her mouth, she darted past Deaton and began hastily shoving things into her bag for school. She gave him a soft kiss of the check and darted out of the house.
Rose walked up to the blue jeep of her best friend, he smiled up at her, even tho he had only just seen her the day before.
"Look at you all gothic" Stiles whistled at her.
"Bad goth or good" Rose questioned as she did a small twirl in front of him.
"Hot goth" his cheeky reply as she hopped in the car
Rose gave a snort as she threw her bag into the back of his jeep and made herself comfortable in the front.
"So you're never going to guess what happened last night?" Stiles practically exclaimed when he started the car.
"What?"
"My dad got called out to the Reserve because a body was found in the woods but it wasn't a full body they only found half a body" Stiles rushed out with his normal over enthusiasm.
"You really shouldn't be excited over a dead body Stiles" Rose scolded him as he looked too over excited.
"I know but nothing ever happens in this town, its exciting" he pouted at her.
"So do they know who it is?"
"Oh, I knew you couldn't hold out too long, but no they have no idea at the moment all they know is it's a female" Stiles' enthusiasm for things like this often freaked her out but he had a good heart and was always there for her.
"So, I'm guessing you and Scott went looking didn't you?"
"Of course but my dad caught me so I had to go and I kinda left Scott there" Stiles winced when she raised an eyebrow at him.
"You're both idiots, you should just leave it to your dad to handle" she scolded again.
"I know but come on, its been the most exciting thing that's happened in a long time" Stiles was like a child in many ways but in a lot of other ways he was smart and resourceful.
For the rest of the drive she listened to him go on about how cool it would have been to have found the other half of the body and how his father never lets him do anything fun. Once they arrived at school, Stiles practically fell out of the car when he seen Scott standing out the front looking tired.
Rose moved more slowly giving Scott a warm smile as she approached, they had spent a lot of time together over the holidays, with him working at the clinic and she helping Deaton with the paperwork side of it.
"Well show us" Stiles exclaimed once they had gotten close enough.
Scott pulled up his shirt revealing a large white patch which had a considerable amount of blood on it. Stiles moved to touch it but Scott shied away.
"It was a wolf that bit me" Rose raised her brow at this.
"That's impossible" Stiles remarked.
"There was a wolf howl and then it bit me" Scott tried justifying.
"No I mean its impossible because wolves haven't been in California for like 60 years" Stiles explained.
Scott and Stiles kept walking but Rose had come to a complete stop, she could feel someone watching her. She could feel someone's eyes roaming over her, now she was normally used to the stares. Peoples parents told them who she was that's she was one of the survivors of the Hale fire.
But this stare was different it wasn't like the curious stare she got from most of the population of Beacon Hills this was much more like a predatory. Like this person was trying to study her. She cast out her senses trying to pin point the location of the person.
She found nothing which made her even more uneasy, either this person was another witch or this person knew how to hide from her sense which was even more worrisome. Though she knew most witches didn't know she was still in town so many of them didn't hide there powers.
"Hey, Rose are you coming?" Stiles yelled to her from the steps of the school.
She gave them a smile and jogged to catch back up to them ignoring the questionable looks she got from the two of them. She threaded her arms through theirs and dragged them to their first class.
As to normal protocol for them, Stiles and Rose sat towards the back where as Scott always tended to sit in the middle. As they where reading the their outlines for the semester Rose couldn't help but noticed how strange Scott was acting. He clutched at his ears and started looking around the room wildly.
He ignored the questioning look he received from Rose before looking out the window. Rose turned her attention back to her out line. She only looked up when the Vice Principle walked in followed by a new student.
"Everybody this is your new classmate Allison Argent so please make her feel welcome" he told them before turning and leaving the room.
Allison stood awkwardly at the front of the class before moving to take the only seat behind Scott who almost automatically turned and offered her a pen. Allison looked slightly confused at first before giving her thanks while Scott looked over the moon.
Once class had ended Rose headed for her next class, because she didn't have anymore classes with Stiles or scott she had to promise them she would indeed come and watch their lacrosse trials.
But after that her day seemed to drag on, the only joy she had was music with Danny who gushed over her hair and decided to do a duet music piece for their major project.
As the school day came to an end she headed out to the fields to watch the boys. She perched herself on the back row of the steal bleachers pulling out her music book and started reading through the chapters she was assigned too.
The boys soon came out for their try outs which started off normal, Scott getting a hit in the head, though must have hurt made Rose let out a soft giggle. But anyone who had laughed soon stopped when Scott managed to catch ball after ball.
Something Rose knew for sure Scott had never been able to do, she had been with him and Stiles when they would practice over the summer while they both had their own qualities they where both terrible at lacrosse.
As they finished training even coach was seemingly more quiet then his normal, he congratulated Scott on not sucking so much and said he could be on first line.
After both the boys had showered and Rose waited for them in Stiles jeep taking the front seat. Poking her tongue out at Scott when he pouted at her for having to get into the back they set off to the Reserve in hopes of finding Scotts inhaler. Once out of the Jeep they trio set off into the woods, woods the trio knew well.
"It's so strange, it was like I had all the time in the world to catch those balls" Scott said with excitement. "And I can hear and smell things I shouldn't"
"Really smelling things like what?" Stiles with
"Like the mint mojito gum in your pocket" Scott said confidently.
"I don't have any mint…" he said as he felt around in his pockets stopping when he pulled out the gum.
"This all started with the bite" Stiles thought out load.
"What if its like an infection or something, what if these are side affects and I'm going to die" Scott started panicking now.
Rose merely rolled her eyes at him, "Your not going to die" Rose told him as she knew in the back of her mind it was more.
"You know what" Stiles started, "Ive heard of this. It's a specific type of infection"
"Is it serious?" Scott asked.
"Yeah," While Rose could hear the playfulness in Stiles tone Scott wouldn't be able to pick up on it, "I think its called Lycanthropy".
Rose ended up tripping on a tree root landing heavily on her side when lycanthropy came out of Stiles mouth. Scott crouched down to help her up a worried expression on his face, though she wasn't sure if it was for herself or for himself.
"Whats that? Is it bad?" Rose rolled her eyes as she stood and brushed herself off, concern for himself of course.
"Its only once a month. Like Rose gets" Stiles told off handedly but still he got a hit to the back of the head from Rose.
"Once a month" Scott replied sceptically.
"Yeah on the night of the full moon"
Scott gave a huff of annoyance while Stiles gave a small laugh. Rose kept back now, she could feel the eyes of who ever was watching her this morning again and now Stiles was getting way to close to truths he didn't really understand.
They where still talking about Scott possibly being a Lycan when they came to the spot where Scott had lost his inhaler.
"It has to be around here somewhere" Scott muttered as he shifted the leaves around.
"Well if the body was here as well the murder might have come back and moved the body" Stiles enthused.
"Well I hope he left my inhaler those things cost like 80 bucks" Scott muttered again.
Scott had crouched down to shift through more leave Stiles was standing next to him and Rose leaned down as well. She nearly jumped when Stiles shift around quickly and then slapped Scott on the back. Rose stood at nearly the same time as Scott turning to face in the same direction as Stiles.
She felt the anger roll of the man in front of them, and the auror of magic as well. An auror that was familiar to her, Stiles shifted in front of her, something he tended to do often especially when he thought someone was threatening. The person in front of them stalked towards them.
"What are you doing here?" he demanded of them before giving them a chance to speak he spoke again, "Huh? This is private property"
"Oh sorry man we didn't know" Stiles managed out.
"We were just looking for something but forget it" Scott mumbled out. Rose felt frozen she couldn't move and she nearly flinched as the man raised his arm and tossed something at scott who caught it with ease. It was his inhaler.
After Scott had it in his hand, the man turned and stalked off. Rose let out her breath that she had been holding in. The two boys stood their stunned for a few seconds before Scott muttered about having to get to work.
"Dude" Stiles stopped him, "That's Derek Hale, remember his whole family burned to death in that fire like 10 years ago".
"Try like 6" Rose breathed out, Stiles winced as she spoke he had somewhat forgotten she was there when he talked.
"I wonder what he's doing back?" Scott questioned out loud.
"You and me both" Rose mumbled as she started walking back to the car.
She was a fair distance ahead of the boys by the time they reached the car, Stiles dropped Scott of at Deaton Clinic before pulling off to the side of the road a little bit away from the clinic.
"I'm sorry" Stiles apologised.
"Don't be it wasn't you" Rose mumbled, "I think I'm a little stunned. I haven't seen Derek in a few years so seeing him kinda shocked my system"
"I get that you's went through a lot together" Stiles muttered.
"Yeah, he looks a lot different" Rose muttered.
"Does he always look that angry?"
"I think its gotten worse" Rose snorted. "Hey while we are sitting in the car can we swing by the Garage so I can pick up my car it should be finished by now"
"Oh get the baby, what your sick of the jeep" Stiles teases as he started the engine.
"Oh you know I love the Jeep but I miss my baby" Rose smiled as she tapped her hand on the dash of the jeep. Jumping when the glove box dropped down. "But it needs a bit of work".
"Please my baby has such character, yours is all plastic and stuff"
"Yes but mine wont break down every 300 meter, you had to fix it like 40 times this summer while mine was getting fix"
"But your engine nearly blew up remember"
"A slight hiccup really"
Stiles just rolled his eyes at her and snorted, one thing he had learned about Rose she more often then not shrugged off near death experiences and for her they happened quiet a lot.
"Do you want me to hang around incase they aren't finished with the car?" Stiles asked as they pulled up in front of the garage.
"Nah, it cool they should be finished with it by now its been nearly a month like really" Rose smiled at him leaning across the seat and giving him a kiss on the cheek. He smiled and waved her out of his car, she gave him and over shoulder wave as she heard him pulled away from the garage.
Rose hated the smell of garages, grease and oil were too pungent of a smell for her nose, the bell above the door of the shop as she walked in. She gave a small wave and smile to one of the mechanics as they eyed her being there.
Behind the desk in the reception area was a small plump lady with dark hair flicked with grey strands, she gave Rose a small annoyed look as she approached the desk.
"Can I help you dear?" Her tone was clipped as she spoke.
"I was wondering if I could know about my car, its under the name Veller" the women behind the desk nearly jumped at the name.
"Oh of course my dear let me get my husband" she rushed out from behind the desk and into the garage welling to a man at the far end of the garage. As the plump women came back to her desk her husband come in wiping his hands on a rag that hung out of his pocket.
"Miss Veller, I must say your car is quiet the beauty. Don't get many Mustang Boss 302's in here. Been a pleasure working on her so far," he greeted her extending his hand to hers.
"Well for the amount of money I'm guessing its going to be costing me more then it should" Rose gave a weak laugh.
"The damage isn't that bad but we are still waiting on some parts to come in so it still isn't drivable" he told her as he scratched the back of his head.
"Any idea on when those parts will be in?"
"It would be ready by the end of next week,
Rose let out a groan, "Thanks, just let me know when its ready" she shook his hand one last time before heading out of the garage. She pulled her phone out to ring stiles but found that her battery was dead.
Letting out another groan she started walking, glad that it was still fairly warm. As the sun started setting she picked up her pace with all the attacks going on she didn't want to be anywhere close to the woods.
Rose pulled her jacket around her as the wind picked up and her senses prickled, its going to rain great, she thought. But that wasn't the only senses going into overdrive, there was a car driving straight at her and the person in it was letting of the same negative energy that was in the woods earlier.
It got worse as a car started approaching, the car seemed to slow when its head lights reached her but it still flew past her. Rose let out a sigh as she felt the first couple of drops start to fall. She continued to walk as the rain got heavier feeling it seep through her jacket making her shiver.
She had walked another few meters when headlights came up behind her. She moved off to the side a bit more to avoid getting splashed by the car only to have it stop right beside her. The door to the passenger side opened.
"Get in"