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Chapter Two: The Awakening
Melody gets up out of her bed and yawns, when her iPhone begins to vibrate with a series of text message early in the morning. The witch picks her iPhone up, and sees that the text messages are all from Allison, however before she can respond to them Derek snatches her iPhone away from her and tells her to stay away from Allison.
"Her family are hunters, there are chances that she was raised to become one as well. They may not hunt witches, but that doesn't mean they won't start if you do something to get on their radar."
Melody huffs at the werewolf, as she freezes him in place when she takes her iPhone back from her and begins to respond to Allison's text messages. The witch smiles when Allison informs her that Scott asked her out to Lydia's party, but wasn't sure if it could be considered a date or not.
The witch prepares to respond, when she remembers to unfreeze Derek who has been frozen for a while now. Derek snarls, as he walks past her in the living room and into the kitchen to make them breakfast.
He tells the witch that she needs to work on expanding the range and development of her freezing power more. Melody rolls her eyes, as she tells him that she will be at home in a few hours after school to train her power.
"Wait on a second thought, are you planning on going out to Lydia's party?"
Melody arches an eyebrow at the werewolf in her kitchen and tells him that she refuses to participate in illegal activities that will most likely be a mark on her perfect record. Derek gives her a wolfish smirk, as he tells her that she is going with him to keep an eye on Scott since he has a feeling that he's going to the party with Allison.
"I hate you right now Derek. I hope your soul gets tortured by fluffy bunnies in the eternal depths of Hell itself."
The witch says, as she shoots him a dark smirk and goes to sit down at the kitchen table when Derek sets down plates of homemade strawberry waffles. Melody smiles at the scent, as she thanks him and digs into the fresh waffles made from Derek's labor.
"Why don't you hang out with Scott and Stiles? They are within your own age range after all, don't all teenagers gravitate towards each other like bees on honey?"
Melody narrows her eyes at Derek's question, when she takes a moment to chew her food thoughtfully and swallows when she's ready to answer. The witch shrugs her shoulders, as she says that something about Stiles bothers her a lot more than the fact that Scott's a werewolf.
"I don't know, it's like he exists to infuriate me with the way he talks and acts. He just has to butt in with a rebuttal to my points during English class, whenever I get done listing out my points."
Derek notices with a blank face, that the witch seems to unconsciously get excited whenever she talks about Stiles. Melody's iPhone vibrates and interrupts the witch's passionate rant about how annoying Stiles is, when she grabs her spell book and starts to flip through the pages quickly.
"Wait, didn't you say that you were required to work with Stiles on the group project for your English, Geometry, and Geography classes? You should focus on your classes and your magical studies for now, Melody. It doesn't do us much good, if my spy flunks out of high school?"
Melody narrows her eyes at Derek at the mention of the word 'spy', as she pulls out the stacks of her part of the projects already completed. Derek looks at Melody with wide eyes, as he asks her how she managed to complete months of work in a few days.
"Magic of course Derek. My ancestors believed that any time wasted on 'normal' studies is time that should be used to further a witch's magical studies and powers to protect the innocent. Thanks god for that spell, it's handy for getting all of the important projects finished fast. However, the spell won't work for magical studies since we have to take our time with those."
Melody rolls her eyes, as she gets another frantic text message about the first part of their group projects due in a few days from Stiles. The witch prepares to strangle the hyperactive teen, when she realizes that she can use their group project as a way to find out what Stiles know about his best friend being a werewolf.
"I'm going to do some recon at Stiles' house after school, don't wait up for me and be careful tonight Derek. The last thing we need is a bunch of hunters coming after us for attacking Allison on accident."
Derek growls at the witch, as she ducks a flying saucer from him and leaves with her purse and stack of papers for her group projects. The witch gets into her car, as she turns on the radio when she realizes that Stiles is in front of the school waiting for her eagerly like a little puppy.
"Melody, please tell me that you have some idea of what we're going to do for our group projects. I need to get a good grade on these projects."
Melody nods, as she tells him all of her ideas for their projects when he asks her to come over tonight to his house so they can get started on the research. The witch nods, as she sees Jackson slam Scott up against the locker angrily and decides to intervene when she screams at him.
"Excuse me, let go of my friend now or I'm going to change my mind about sending your ass to prison where you'll be some dude's prison bitch."
Jackson instantly lets go of Scott McCall and looks infuriated at Melody, when Lydia comes around the corner and spots Melody. She has a fake smile on her face, as she invades Melody's personal boundaries.
"Listen here you tramp, you may have Jackson and everyone else thinking that you're the Queen of this school. Let's get a few things clear, I am the Queen of this school and you are a mere peasant of this school who is an annoying bug under my shoe that I can crush anytime I want to."
Melody scoffs at Lydia, as she rolls her eyes and turns around when Lydia does something unexpected and grabs the witch's hair as she shoves her into the locker. Stiles' jaw drops, as he watches Lydia slam Melody against the lockers when the new girl chuckles at her as she reverses her hold on her.
"Just like your boyfriend the douchebag, I'm going to let you off with a warning this time. Next time you fuck with me bitch, I will destroy your lives without a second thought."
The witch walks away from a stunned Lydia Martin, when Stiles and Scott catches up with the witch as they look at each other with surprise on their faces. Scott furrows his
nose, as he tries to figure out Melody's scent by leaning in closer when the witch glares at him and gently pushes him away from her space.
The three of them enters their English class, when the teacher springs a surprise on them and the rest of the students as he informs them that the first parts of the projects were due today. Stiles let out a dramatic groan, as he slams his head on the desk and kisses his grades goodbye.
Melody looks at Stiles for a few moments, and decides to take the English part of her group project out of her purse. The witch gently pulls on Stiles' hoodie, when he looks at her with confusion on his face as she shows him the group project.
"Miss Winters and Mr. Stilinski, have the two of you finished the first portion of your group project?"
Melody hands it to Stiles, as she whispers for him to say that he did some of the work on the project as well. He shakes his head and refuses, when the witch rolls her eyes and tells him that he can do the second part on his own if it makes him feel better when he nods at the witch. Stiles turns in the first portion of the group project much to Mr. Reynolds' surprise when the teacher nods at him and thanks him and Melody.
Stiles thanks Melody, as she nods at him and gives him a small smile on her normally reserved face. He begins to analyze the newcomer a bit more, as he gets the sense that Melody has something around her that waits to be unlocked when she realizes her full potential.
He blinks, as Melody gives him a cursory glance over, before she blushes at him as she realizes that she has been caught and hides behind her textbook. Stiles gives a frown as he thinks that he has something on his face, when he raises his thumb up or down questionably at the daughter of a former Senator.
Melody raises a thumb up in confusion, just as the bell rings and dismisses them from the classroom when their teacher reminds them that the second part of the group project is due in a week. Allison smiles, as she passes Melody and links arms with her, as she talks with her excited about the party tonight.
Scott walks past the two of them, when he smiles at Allison, as she recounts her horrible evening last night when she accidentally ran into a dog. Melody nods at Allison, as she snaps out of his trance.
"Great, I'll tell Scott that you'll keep Stiles company since he was worried about ditching his 'bro' Thanks Melody, I owe you one!"
Melody gives Allison a weak smile, as she curses herself for not paying enough attention to what Allison was saying to her. The witch whips her iPhone out, as she texts Stiles and asks him what time does he want her to come over to his house.
Finally after the last bell rings, Melody gets into her Mercedes when she drives out of the parking lot as she decides to go home for a few hours to practice her magic.
She looks around, as she enters the apartment and sees no sign of Derek, and her eyebrow twitches at the mess in her living room and kitchen. The witch mutters a spell to clean up everything, when she starts to make various potions and focuses on mixing the ingredients the right way to maximize their potency.
After a few hours has passed, the witch's iPhone reminds her that she has to go to Stiles' house in a few minutes. Melody looks at her clothes, and squints as she tries to think about changing her clothes when she decides that she looks presentable enough.
The Sorceress jumps into her car, as she calls Stiles on her Bluetooth and informs him that she is on her way to his house on his voicemail. Melody arrives at a nice looking modest three-bedroom house, when she gets out of the car and heads up on the porch and rings the doorbell.
She waits for a few minutes, when the door opens to reveal a very angry Scott who looks surprised to see her there. He pushes her hard aside, when she narrows her eyes at his rude behavior and hears Stiles call her to come upstairs into his bedroom.
"Hey there, can we skip the normal research stuff for tonight? Tonight is Scott's full moon, and I don't know what will happen. Can you look through this lore and tell me what's true since you were the first one who knew about Scott being a werewolf in the first place?"
Stiles says, as he winces at how hard Scott threw him against the wall, when Melody takes out a vial full of green liquid and hands it to him. He cocks an eyebrow at the mysterious liquid, as she rolls her eyes and tells him that it's an old wives remedy passed down throughout her family to help with aches and bruises.
Stiles looks suspicious, when the witch rolls her eyes and drinks some of the liquid when nothing happens to her. He drinks it all and nearly retches at the wretched taste of the liquid, when the liquid begins to do its magic and heals him of his aches and bruises.
Melody looks through Stiles' research and points out the myths and fables, as she grabs her keys and Stiles' arm as she pulls him out of his bedroom.
"Allison's in danger, we need to get her away from Scott now!"
Stiles nods, as he realizes that most of his research was right about Scott being a werewolf when he begins to follow the witch into her car. Melody shakes her head and tells him to drive himself to Scott's house as she will go and check on Allison and Scott.
The witch pulls out of the Sheriff's driveway, as she presses the pedal to the metal and breaks several speed limits when she arrives at Lydia's house. Melody sees a very sweaty and sick Scott run away from Allison at the party, when the witch shakes her head at Derek and motions for him to go after Scott.
"Hey Allison, do you need a ride home?"
Allison nods, as she has a mixture of disappointment and anger on her face when she sees Scott leave the party without any explanation whatsoever. Melody comforts her, and tells her that she is pretty sure that Scott has a pretty good reason for leaving like he did and that it has nothing to do with her.
"Thanks Melody for the ride home, we should hang out together sometimes. It's nice to talk to a different girl that isn't Lydia all of the time. I don't agree with what she did to you, that was completely unprovoked and uncalled for."
Melody smiles and nods at Allison, as she is about to pull out of the car when Allison realizes that she left her blue blazer at the party with a groan. The witch tells her that she will get a new one, when they go shopping this weekend, which puts an excited grin on Allison's face.
The Enchantress pulls out of the Argents' driveway when she drives back to her apartment and decides to wait for Derek there to update her on the situation with Scott. Melody parks her car, as she gets out of the car when she narrows her eyes as she freezes several arrows at once in her direction.
"What the hell is the matter with you? You hunters should know better than to try kill a witch, it never ends well for you guys."
A hunter comes out of the woods with several other hunters behind them with a crossbow in his hand. Melody narrows her eyes, as she watches the hunters warily and crosses her arms across her chest.
"The name is Chris Argent, you're the last Sorceress from the Winters family aren't you? My condolences on the loss of your loved ones, we might require your assistance to deal with the Alpha in the future. It would be very wise for you to choose who you ally with very carefully in the future, it could have unintended consequences that could be devastating should you choose not to ally with the Argents."
Chris Argent gives Melody a cold smile on his face, when the Sorceress fights back every urge to use her powers to teach the bastard in front of him not to threaten a witch. He smirks, as he and his friends leave the parking lot of Melody's apartment complex when Melody begins to shake with absolute rage at the audacity of the Hunters.
Melody decides to go into her apartment, when she notices that something seems to be off in her apartment, but can't figure out what is wrong. She shrugs her shoulders, as she closes the door and locks it with her powers since Derek the jerk can fend for himself since he left her outside all alone in the cold at night.
The Sibyl wakes up with a yawn, as her alarm pierces through the veil of her slumber to get her up and ready for school. She rubs her eyes, as she gets up from the bed and notices a passed out Derek on her couch who has several injuries that look like bullet holes. Melody lets out a weary sigh, as she reins in her revulsion at the sight of Derek's blood on her expensive couch when she rifles through her potion cabinet and takes out one with a red liquid inside it.
She uncorks it wordlessly, as she takes off Derek's t-shirt and pours the liquid into the bullet wounds which burns up the bullets without hurting the older werewolf and kick starts his healing abilities for a bit. Derek gives her a grunt of acknowledgement in thanks to her healing potion, when she smacks him hard on the leg as she glares at him.
"Don't get shot next time idiot. Last thing that we need is you getting killed. What happened to you last night anyway, I waited for you, but you never showed up."
Derek explains everything that happened to the witch with the appearance of the Hunters and him saving Scott from them. Melody frowns, as she tells them that's impossible because the hunters visited her last night while she was here at home outside in the parking lot.
"Well, there are a lot more hunters than there are werewolves or witches, I think it's safe to assume that its possible two groups could have been sent. What did the hunters want with you anyway? Witches generally stay out of supernatural business and focuses on maintaining the balance of nature."
Melody frowns, as she tells him that Chris Argent basically threatened to kill her if she wasn't careful about whom she allied herself with. Derek lets out a small growl, when the Sorceress gets up from the couch and goes into the kitchen to make she and Derek some food for breakfast.
"Here, you need to get some fuel in you for your investigation for the Alpha, just be careful when you're out late at night Derek from now on."
Derek nods at her with a stoic look on his face, as he slowly takes bites of the stacks of waffles on his plate. The older werewolf takes a moment to assess the woman in front of him, as he wonders why she still insists on feeding him food and taking care of him.
Melody's iPhone vibrates with a series of text messages from Stiles, as she rolls her eyes and locks her phone and focuses on eating the rest of her breakfast in peace and quiet. She puts her plate away in the kitchen sink, as she hums to herself a lullaby that her mother used to sing to her when she was younger.
"I'm going to take a shower now, just let me know if you need anything."
She disappears, as she goes into her bathroom and starts the hot water in her luxurious medium-sized bathtub. Melody takes off her clothes from the night before, as she gets into the bathtub and lets out a sound of pleasure at the soothing hot water that envelops her from the showerhead.
She begins to take a moment to assess her thoughts of the town of Beacon Hills and its occupants to make a list of pros and cons of making the decision to move to the town.
The pros of moving to Beacon Hills was to get a fresh start to rebuild her life after everything that happened to her in Crescent City and she got to meet new people. The two cons of Beacon Hills that she can think of at the moment is that the fact that there is a crazy Alpha going around killing a bunch of people with no distinct pattern that she can recognize and hunters threatening to kill her.
The sound of a knock on the front door breaks Melody out of her thoughts, as she shuts off the shower in the foggy bathroom. The Enchantress wraps a giant fluffy white towel around her chest to hide her breasts as she comes out of the bathroom and dashes quickly into the bedroom before Derek sees anything.
"Melody, Stiles is here and he wants to talk with you about your Chemistry project. I told him that you'll be out soon and if he does anything untoward to you, I will rip out his throat with my teeth."
Melody rolls her eyes when she hears the last part of Derek's statement, as she opens the door and comes out wearing a black turtleneck sweater paired with a pair of black leggings and high-heeled boots. She has her hair wrapped in a bun, as she gives Stiles an annoyed glance and sees that he just started eating her food without permission.
The witch puts on her emerald earrings, as she walks into the living room and sits down in one of the chairs. Stiles instantly starts to rant about Mr. Harris and how he thinks that the teacher is the Alpha because no decent human would enjoy the amount of suffering from giving students so much homework.
"Stiles, let's just focus on the equations for now and gripe about the project after we're done okay?"
Stiles nods in affirmation, as the witch and he focus on finishing their homework before it's due tomorrow on a Monday. After several hours of grueling research and complex problem solving, the two of them have completed their group project when Melody hands Stiles her part and tells him to turn it into the teacher tomorrow.
Stiles looks confused at the woman, when she elaborates and tells him that she is going on a trip to get some answers and won't be in school tomorrow. Stiles narrow his eyes at her in suspicion, when he tenses up at the sight of Derek entering the apartment.
"Why does he have a spare key to your apartment, is he your boyfriend or something?"
Stiles say with a hint of anger, when Melody arches her eyebrows at him and tells him that Derek is just a friend who is staying with her temporarily. Derek gives Stiles a stoic look, as he waits for the hyperactive teen to get the hint and pack up his stuff.
"See you in school Mel on Tuesday. Thanks for being so flexible with the timing, I know it's not convenient since I have been doing research on werewolves for Scott."
Melody nods at him, as she feels a sense of something familiar inside the teen, as he brushes past her on his way out of the door. The witch frowns, as she dismisses the possibility of him being her knight in shining armor when Derek tells her that he didn't find any clues as to the identity of the Alpha.
"Are you sure that you don't have a spell to figure out an identity for the Alpha Melody? Couldn't you just write a spell and boom, you have the identity of the Alpha in mere seconds?"
The witch's eyebrow twitches in annoyance, as she calmly tells him that she would have done that already if she could. She states that someone who could be working with the Alpha is somehow blocking her spells from coming through to obtain his identity. Derek growls, as he slams the witch against the wall and tells her to try harder to find the damn Alpha.
Melody narrows her eyes at Derek, as she smashes a potion against his chest, which causes him to fall to the ground. The Enchantress tells him that she is working on crafting a spell that will bypass the blocks on the Alpha's identity and not to throw her against the wall ever again.