I remember waking up in the forest.

Cold, in pain and alone.

I'm always alone now.

I watched as Derek dragged Jackson out of the house, my hand stinging and my head spinning. He dropped Jackson near his car and stalked away, I crawled over to him and pulled him closer in order to keep us both warm. I felt him give a shuddering breath and his eyes opened and he shot up into a sitting position.

His shirt was ripped showing his bite mark, and he was covered in dirt.

"Come, with me, we've gotta get rid of all this dirt." I said noticing we were both covered in soot ash and mud.

"And where do you suppose we go?" Jackson asked. I pointed east.

"There is a small lake about half a mile that way, we can clean up there." I pulled my arms around me to keep myself warm, but with the cold breeze, all it was doing was highlighting the coldness of my skin.

"Come here" Jackson motioned to himself "I'll keep us warm." I moved closer and he put his arm around me and pulled me closer and shared his body heat.

When we got to the lake we both dived in, I jumped out quickly as the water was cold and cleaned me off quicker. But Jackson stayed under. I sat on a rock, close to the edge, and waited, when he came up, he was free of the dirt, but his bite looked angry and painful, he pulled himself over to me I could see the steam rising off him, I could also see how tight his jeans were, but that I kept to myself. He sat next to me and I ran my hand over the bite to get rid of some of the bloody water. He looked at me and smirked in his own way, and we looked up at the moon.


The next night I got a phone call from the hospital. Apparently stiles was sleep talking and creeping out the nurses. When I got there I saw him lay across 3 of the hospital chairs. According to the staff, he had been there all weekend. I walked over to him.

"Oi, sleeping weirdo, you're creeping out the nurses." he jolted and fell off the chairs. I laughed.

"You are a mean girl, you know that right Mimi?" I smirked, and shrugged my shoulders.

"It comes and goes. Come on lets go get some food, or at least some sugar." Stiles grinned.

"I like your thinking."

We walked over to the vending machine and I picked some M&Ms and stood leaning against the machine.

"So how long do you plan on staying here for?" I asked him and I ate my candy. Stiles yawned and chose some Reese's peanut butter cups.

"I don't know." His candy got stuck and he tried pushing the buttons, I moved away from the machine, knowing it wouldn't end well.

"Aww come on, man." he sighed.

"Seriously?" he asked banging on the machine. He then had the brilliant idea of shaking the machine, I leant back against the wall and watching him grow more and more agitated.

He tried shaking it again, then moving it, then he backed away. He then shook it again, but this time it resulted in the candy machine falling over, causing me to burst out laughing and the machine to make a resounding crash. As Stiles leant over the machine, we heard a piercing scream come from Lydias room. We looked up, and bolted towards her room, Scotts mum, Lydias father, Stiles and I all burst through the door, and through the room into where she was showering, or rather where she was supposed to be showering. We pulled the curtain back and saw nothing. No Lydia and there was nobody else in the room. All that was there to show evidence that she was there was the running shower, and her hospital gown.

The next few hours was spent with me moving into Stiles house, as my uncle had gone and left me behind. And the boys spent the night looking for Lydia, and did most of the teenage boys in our town. Who could resist the chance to find a naked Lydia running around?


While I was moving my stuff around in my new room, I got a call from Derek telling me to meet him in the graveyard. When I arrived there, I saw a digger, which was normally used for clearing out space for a new grave, on its side and Derek lurking in the shadows. I walked over to him.

"What is this about?" I asked but turned around just in time to see something high tailing it away from the scene.

"Look, there is someone in there." He pointed to the large hole in the ground. Derek moved the digger away and we walked towards the hole. He stood on the edge and I saw a boy around my age half sat half lay in the hole.

"Need a hand?" Derek asked, standing over the hole. The boy shrank down, and looked at us with fear in his eyes.

The next morning after the boys left I straightened up my outfit. My dress and blazer were pin neat and shoes perfectly clean. I heard the Porsche pull up outside and I walked up to it, and knocked on the window.

"Might I catch a lift?" I asked smiling. He smirked.

"Oh I don't know? What's in it for me" I chuckled pressing my lips to his.

"Something like this?" I asked.

"Hmm I was thinking what happened the other night, but I suppose a kiss will do for now." I smirked.

"Good because that is all you are getting. Now drive, so we can get school over and don't with."

As we pulled into school, a couple of freshman stared in awe at the car and at Jackson. Smirking he got out of the car and towards the school.

"Nice car." A homeless guy that was picking through the trash said as we walked past. Jackson got his wallet out, he handed the man a dollar.

"Here's a dollar, go find another parking lot to die in." He walked away and I punched him.

"What was that for?" He asked.

"For being a jackass." I said glaring at him.


In chemistry I was sat near the door, with a frizzy blonde haired girl. I put my bag down and sat on the chair closest to the wall, which was coincidentally further away from Jackson.

"You know people aren't normally willing to sit next to a girl who has seizures, they think it's contagious." she said looking down at the book in front of her. I smiled.

"Well lucky for me I understand what its like to not be in control of your own body." I looked at her, she smiled back and it seemed to light up her face.

"Do you?" she trailed off.

"No but my sister Rae did. I'm Meridithe."

"Erica Reyes."

Because Mr Harris dislikes us so much, he sprung a pop quiz on us, looking over at Erica I saw she was more than halfway through. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Stiles leaning forward and trying to have a conversation with Scott, unluckily for him, Mr Harris saw him.

"This is a pop quiz Mr Stilinski, if I hear your voice I again, I may be tempted to give you detention for the rest of your high school career."

"Can you do that?" Stiles asked, and I groaned at my friends stupidity.

"And there it is again, your voice, triggering the only impulse I have ever had to strike a student repeatedly and violently, I'll see you at three for detention." I heard Danny snigger and I let loose a little giggle.

"You too Mr McCall?" the teacher asked.

"No sir" Scott replied quickly.

I heard Danny say something to Jackson, and Jackson bolting. I shoved my seat back and followed him, ignoring the teachers command for us to get back to the classroom, I followed him and quickly texted Derek letting him know there was a problem with Jackson. I followed him to the toilets, where I saw drops of black liquid all over the floor, leading up to a toilet stall. Derek followed me in to the bathroom quietly.

Derek lightly knocked on the door of the stall Jackson was in.

"I'm fine Danny just go back to class."

he knocked again.

"Just give me a second okay?" Jackson called out, his voice sounding smothered.

Derek nudged the door.

"I said give me a freaking second." Jackson said sounding frustrated.

Derek knocked the door again breaking the lock, I shrank back into the shadows as Derek pulled Jackson out of the stall.

"Derek?"

"You're looking a little pale there Jackson." Derek said getting closer to him.

"You feeling okay?" Jackson backed away.

"Never better." Jackson tried to deny that anything was wrong.

"If something is wrong, I need to know, we need to know, you're with us now" Derek spoke staring down at Jackson.

"Wait with you? Me with you? What am I? Your little pet?" Jackson asked. I walked out of the shadows.

"Just because you gave me the bite, doesn't mean I'm part of your little wolf pack, to be honest you don't exactly show outstanding leadership qualities." Jackson said smugly.

"Is that so?" Derek asked.

"Look I've got my own agenda, which doesn't involve running around the woods at night, howling at the moon with you and McCall okay?" I walked closer to them both because I noticed black liquid seeping from his ear.

"So why don't you just back off." I pushed my boyfriends head towards the mirror so he could see what we saw.

"What is it?" Jackson asked. Derek left the room and left Jackson and I alone

"What's happening?" Jackson asked me. I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Your body is fighting the bite." I told him confused.

"Why though?" Jackson stared into the mirror.

"I don't know." I grabbed some tissue.

"But what does it mean?" he looked at me.

"I don't know, I've never seen it happen before." When he turned back to the mirror, more of it was seeping from his nose.

"What is happening to me?" he asked. I shook my head.

"It would seem that your body is fighting the bite." I said holding out some tissue paper.


The next night I was tracking a lone omega wolf when I saw Derek stood a few yards away from me.

"You're not very inconspicuous you know?" he said, I rolled my eyes.

"Maybe not, but, I did notice something you didn't" I calmly stated.

"And that is?" Derek looked at me waiting for my answer.

"A lone wolf is in town, Scott is driving him here, so we can chat." I leaned against a tree. Derek raised his eyebrow, and we heard them come towards us.

I saw Scott and the omega leap over rocks and boulders in their path as Scott called after him asking him to wait. But the omega triggered a trip wire causing him to be suspended in the air. Derek pushed Scott out of the way, as I tried to get the other wolf out of the trap, however before I could manage it Derek grabbed the back of my jacket and pulled me back

"Move it now!" he dragged me and Scott back behind some trees, away from the suspended wolf.

"What are you doing? I can help him." Scott protested.

"They are already here." Derek pinned Scott back.

"I can help him" Scott tried to break out of the Alphas hold.

"Be quiet." I commanded, fixing him with a stony glare. As we watched the other wolf struggle, we all saw hunters spill out from behind the rocks and file towards the omega. They circled round him and Chris Argent took a cattle rod to his chest, causing him to yell out in pain. Scott struggled against Dereks hold but couldn't get loose.

"Who are you?" The Argent family patriarch asked the omega.

"What are you doing here?" He asked the omega following his silence to the previous question.

"Nothing." the lone wolf shook his head. "Nothing I swear."

"You're not from here are you? ARE YOU?" Mr Argent shouted towards the end of his sentence.

"No, I came, I came looking for the Alpha." The omega stuttered out "I heard he was here, thats all, look I didn't do anything, I didn't hurt anyone. No one living. He wasn't alive in the ambulance. He wasn't I swear." The old man turned to the other hunters.

"Gentlemen, take a look, at a rare sight, you want to tell them what we've caught?" the old man turn to Chris Argent.

"An omega."

"A lone wolf, possibly kicked out of his own pack, or the survivor of a pack that was hunted down, maybe even murdered, possibly alone by his own choice, certainly not a wise choice." the older man called out to the rest of the group.

The old man walked to out of our sight and pulled something out of a blanket. When he walked back into my line of vision, I saw by the moonlight reflecting on it, that it was a sword. He walked up to the suspended and helpless wolf.

"Because as I am about to demonstrate, an omega rarely survives on its own." the man swung the sword and sliced clean through the omega. We all heard his gasp of shock and pain. And we all saw the internal organs falling from his upper torso and the blood flowing.

"Look, look!" Derek forced Scott to look at the now dead wolf "Look at them, do you see what they do? This is why you need me, need her and why we all need each other, the only way to fight them is together." Derek delivered a slice of harsh reality.

"Face it Scott, without us, you may just end up like him, all alone and dead. Face it you need us." I leant against the tree.

"They're declaring war." Derek stated looking furious.