Jewel was glad. Today she was discharging. her London family only left her because she now had Derek. When she entered her room, after about a 2 week stay at hospital, she found Derek sitting on her chair
"That" she pointed at the chair "is my favorite chair. No one is allowed to sit on it"
Derek chuckled and neared her and closing the gap with a heated kiss. Jewel's hands traveled back to his head and she pulled him to deepen the kiss. Derek lifted her in a bridal style and carried her to the bed, tossing her and hovering above her, never once breaking the contact. He pulled for a while
"What about Dray or your parents?" he asked
"Dray back to London for his wedding. And my room has a silencing charm" she smirked.
Derek smirked and again attacked her with his hungry kisses. Then he moved across jawline then her neck and shoulder blade. Jewel moaned his pleasure, her hands wandering to take out his leather jacket, which he gladly took out. His hands grabbed the zip of her hoodie which he unzipped revealing that she had been wearing nothing under it but bra. His hands hovered over her shorts and her over his t-shirt, which he threw out on the floor. His mouth returned back to hers and her hadns against his sculpted chest, his against her lithe waist.
Half an hour later, jewel rolled off Derek and lied on her part of bed. She supported a huge grin
"I didn't hurt you, did I?" Derek asked
"Don't be ridiculous, Derek. I'm all fine" she beamed, which he returned equally. He pecked her on the cheek and looked at her, supporting his head on his folded arm
"Do you know what it means? He asked
"Are you asking me to be your girlfriend after we have slept together?" she smirked
"Well I'm not asking. I'm simply implying. I knew I fell in love with you since our very first kiss. So I'm just telling you that you are my alpha female now, my better half" he smiled
"Well I knew that" she playfully scoffed then grew grim
"What's it?" he asked
"Dad forbid Lisa from seeing Scott" she informed
"you are too good at lying. And Chris knows about us being quite passionate lovers. I don't think he'll of much trouble"
"I too hope so. I love you" She smiled when suddenly they both froze hearing an ear piercing scream. Jewel said one thing which started both of them out of bed
"Lydia"
Quickly putting on the clothes and pecked Derek
"Let me see how long I can hold off them before they find Lydia"
Derek smiled and nodded and she walked out
She met Allison on her way out
"You heard that?" Allison asked
"Definitely. If Lydia's changing, it's a clear indication. Today's full moon"
They both entered the garage. Allison entered first, but Jewel pulled her beck
"What?!"
Jewel pointed and Allison followed her gaze to see Chris getting into a SUV with three other people and another SUV waiting outside for them. Once he drove off, the sisters exchanged a horrified glance. They quickly piled into Allison's Mazda and drove to the hospital. She pulled just in time for them to find Scott in Stile's jeep. And Stiles running out of the hospital holding something. The Argent sisters ran to them just before they started pulling off
"Wow!" Stiles exclaimed seeing them both
"What are you doing here? Someone's gonna see us." Scott asked when they rushed to his side
"Us?" Jewel asked
"well either both of you or Allison and me" Scott answered
"I don't care - she our best friend, and we need to find her before they do." Allison spoke
"I can find her before the cops can." Scott nodded
"How about before our father does?" Jewel asked
"He knows?" Stiles asked
"Yeah. We just saw him and three other guys leave our house in two SUVs." Allison answered
"Search party." Scot muttered
"It's more like a hunting party." Allison said
"Get in."
"All right, but if she's turning, would they actually kill her?" Stiles asked
"I don't know. They won't tell me anything. Okay, all they say is, "We'll talk after Kate's funeral, when the others get here." " Allison told them
"What others?" Stiles asked
"I don't know, they won't tell me that yet." Allison answered
"Okay, your family's got some serious communication issues to work on." Stiles muttered
"Maybe Jewel knows" Allison turned to find her sister looking unfocused.
"Jewel" she shook her and with a jerk she looked at them
"What did I miss?" she asked
"What happened to you?" Allison asked, worried
"Sorry, I spaced out" she said
"what others are getting here?" Stiles asked
"Oh that would be Gerard and his elite hunting troops" she answered
"Whose Gerard?" Scott asked
"He's our grandfather" she answered
"We have one?" Allison asked
"You haven't seen him since you were three. I met him when I got adopted" she answered
"and elite hunters?" Stiles asked
"the best our community has" she nodded
Stiles sighed and turned to his best friend
"Scott, are we going the right way?"
Scott's took his head out of the window and sniffed
"Take the next right!" he said
"She came here? You sure?" Stiles asked as the four stood there in front of the Hale house
" Yeah, this is where the scent leads." Scott nodded
"Her scent is strong here" Jewel agreed
"All right, but has Lydia ever been here?" Stiles asked
"Not with us." Jewel told them
"Maybe she came here on instinct, like she was looking for Derek." Allison guessed
"You mean - looking for an Alpha." Scott asked
"Wolves need a pack, right?" Allison asked
"Not all of them." Jewel answered glancing at Scott with a smile
"But would she have been drawn to an Alpha? Is it an instinct to be part of a pack?" Allison countered
"Yeah, we're - we're stronger in packs." Scott nodded
"Like strength in numbers. " Allison muttered
"No, like - like, literally stronger, faster, better in every way." Jewel answered
"How do you know all of this?" Stiles asked
"Aside from being a witch? Derek told me" she shrugged
"That the same for an Alpha?" Allison asked
" That'll make Derek stronger too." Scott nodded
" Whoa, hey, look at this. " Stiles rushed and crouched on the ground holding something "You see this? I think it's a tripwire."
"Dad tied a few" Jewel approached Stiles and so did Allison
"Stiles –"
They all turned to see Scott dangling in air, trip wire tied to his legs
"Oh."
"Next time you see a tripwire - don't trip it." Scott said
" Yeah, noted."
They all approached him but he asked them to stop
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Someone's coming. Hide. Go!"
All three of them hid behind a big mount of dirt. Suddenly Jewel got up and tried to leave when Allison stopped her
"Where are you going?" she whispered
"To make sure Dad doesn't catch any of us other than Scott and me" she muttered and left in the darkness
"Scott?" Chris approached there
"Mr. Argent." Scott nodded
"How are you doing?" Chris asked, crouching to the level of Scott's head
"Good. You know, just hangin' out. Is this one of yours?" Chris nodded "It's, uh, good. Nice design. Very constricting."
Suddenly they all heard a growl. The hunters with Chris took out there rifles, ready to shoot. Chris also became alert and looked around finally spotting a pair of green eyes in the dark
"Guns down" he commanded
"But it could be-"
"It's Jewel" he said
From darkness came out a black panther which changed back to Jewel.
"I thought Dad said to put your guns down" she said motioning to their still ready guns, which they reluctantly out down
"What are you doing here, Jewel?" he demanded
"Not interrupting your inquiry with Scott. I followed Lydia's sent and it led me here" she shrugged. Chris sighed and turned to Scott
"What are you doing out here, Scott?"
"Looking for my friend."
"Ah, that's right. Lydia's in your group now, isn't she? Part of the clique? Is that the word you use? Or is there another way to put it? Part of your pack?" he asked with a smirk
"Actually, clique sounds about right to me." Scott nodded
"I hope so. 'Cause I know she's a friend of Jewel and Allison's, and one special circumstance, such as yourself - one, I can handle. Not two."
Jewel cleared her throat but Chris ignored her
"No." Scott answered
"Scott, do you know what a hemicorporectomy is?"
"I have a feeling I don't want to."
"A medical term for amputating somebody at the waist." Chris slid his hand across Scott's waist "Cutting them in half. Takes a tremendous amount of strength to cut through tissue and bone like that. Let's hope a demonstration never becomes necessary." He said and got up
Chris questioningly looked at Jewel, which made her look anywhere but at Chris.
"I'm going to find Lydia. I just hope she doesn't turn" Jewel said. She really hoped that.
"If she did, I want you to tell me without hiding anything" Chris sternly said "You have already broken my trust once Jewel. I don't want my trust on my daughter broken again. And just because you have a werewolf's girlfriend doesn't mean you are not an Argent. You are an Argent first and then a werewolf's love or whatever that is. Am I clear?"
"Crystal" she nodded and they left.
Once they left, Scott grew his claws and slashed the rope that was tied to his leg
"what happened between you and Dad?" Allison asked
"Nothing Lisa" she lied "Let's find Lydia first"
"No" Scott said "You lied. Something happened. And we have the right to know because he said werewolves and that involves me and Derek"
Jewel sighed
"Day before yesterday, he and mom gave me veritaserum and I had to tell them everything. Like each and every awful detail that I hid or lied" she chocked her tears
"What's veritaserum?" Allison asked
"Seriously? You live with the Harry Potter and you don't what veritaserum is?" Stiles whined "It's called the truth potion. Whoever drinks it answers only the truth to whatever asked"
"Let's just get over with finding Lydia" she blinked back her tears and started walking away, following the scent
"She ate the liver?" Scott asked, horrified
"No, I didn't say she ate it. I just said it was missing. And you know what? Even if she did, so what? It's the most nutritious part of the body." Stiles argued
"I never ate anyone's liver." Scott said
"Yeah, right, 'cause when it comes to werewolves, you're a real model of self - control. Actually, wait - hold on. You're the test case for this, so we should be going over what happened to you." He asked, eagerly
"What do you mean?"
"I mean like what was going through your mind when you were turning, you know? What were you drawn to?"
"Allison."
"Okay, nothing else? Seriously?"
"Nothing else mattered. But, no, that's good, though, right? 'Cause the night that Lydia was bit, she was with you."
"Yeah, but she was looking for - Jackson."
"Not her sister, her aunt. The one who murdered all those people." Jewel and Allison froze hearing those words. They were at their locker getting their books, when they heard them talking
"You mean the crazy bitch who killed all those people?"
"Yeah, the fire, all those animal attacks - it was their aunt."
"Are you kidding? I sit next to the brunette in English."
"Find a new seat."
Jewel suddenly stomped up to them and crossed her arms "You should really do that. Because I don't want my sister getting into crowd with some back-bitching bitches. Now get out of here before I break a bone of yours or something" she hissed, making the girls vanish from there. She sighed and dropped her hands. Allision walked to her and squeezed her shoulder
"I shouldn't have lost my temper"
"It's okay" she whispered
"No it's-it's not. It's not okay" Jewel whispered and ran from there, leaving Allison behind, who herself had a tough struggle going on to control her tears from showing.
As soon as she got out of the school, she ran into the woods and changed into her fox animagus liking the feeling of earth under her paws. Her fox animagus was a typical red fox with glowing green eyes. She just ran aimlessly and after a while collapsed on the forest floor and curled into a ball. She felt someone pick her up and she snuggled into the warmth. She never realized that when from crying to herself, she dozed to sleep.
Jewel's eyes fluttered open and things started come to focus. She looked around and found herself in an abandoned subway station. Feeling the warmth under her, she just snuggled deeper into the embrace and the arms around her tightened their grip.
"You okay, babe?" Derek whispered
"A subway station? Really?" she asked ignoring his question
"that's the best I could find" he shrugged. That's when she noticed that her arms were showing their skin
"Where's my jacket, Derek?"
"You were sleeping so I removed it. Why?"
"Nothing. Just, it was precious one" she smiled against his chest
"Hey, I wanted to ask something" Derek spoke
"What?"
"You have a double spiral on your back"
"you have a treskele" she countered "It means alpha, beta, omega, doesn't it?"
Derek nodded "What about you?"
"It's just a reminder of I'm just as evil as good I'm" she whispered
"You are not evil"
"Trust me Derek, there are few things in past that would make you disagree, if you knew"
"Are you fine?" he asked a little sternly
"No I'm not. I have lost so many people in my life that people would take it for granted that losing anymore people won't hurt. It does. It really does Derek." She started sobbing, clutching to his shirt "Kate might be an awful bitch, but she was my aunt. She loved me. She taught me all those hunting skills like a big sister I never had. And I loved her for that. I loved that Kate who was my aunt, not a werewolf-killing-psycho. And I miss her, Derek. And these things people are saying about us, it's just too much"
Derek just rubbed circles on her back, soothing her. He knew how much it hurt.
"I wanna get out of here" this brought Derek back to present
"Where, honey?"
"London" she looked up and faced him "I wanna go to London for some time. With Dray and Mia's wedding on cards, it would be a perfect breakout for me"
"Would you be going alone?" he knew she needed a break. He also did. That was why he and Laura shifted to New York for all those years.
She nodded "Bringing Lisa would get complicated. Not many people know about me being adopted into a werewolf hunting family."
"Okay" he nodded and rubbed her scalp tenderly.
Jewel reached back home and quickly walked into her room. Changing into a simple black dress and black pumps, she put on a pair of black earrings and walked out to meet with her parents and sister
"Mrs. Argent, can we get a few words? Just a few words!"
"A few words, Mrs. Argent!"
"Hold it, hold it, hold it. That's it!"
All the noise of the reporters and the cops and her parents bickering over it was just driving her crazy. Chris was pulling her through the crowd and Victoria was with Allison
"I knew this was a bad idea." Chris muttered
"Well, it wasn't my idea." Victoria snapped
"I tried telling him. But he insisted on making a point of it."
"Well, if he insisted, then he can deal with this when he gets here."
"Who gets here?" Allison asked when they reached to the chairs in front of the coffin
"Just sit down, sweetheart."
"This looks expensive."
Jewel's head whipped to the source of sound. Gerard stood there with his body guards behind him. She recognized the boy with her adoptive grandfather. It was Matt. A boy in their grade. They talked for a while before Gerard took out the sd card and snapped it in two. He ignored the horrified looks by Matt, and walked towards them. He hugged Chris
"I'm so sorry." Victoria told him. Gerard nodded then turned towards the two sisters
"Do you remember me?" he smiled. Allison looked at him and shook her head softly "Considering I haven't seen you since you were three, I don't suppose I can assume you'd call me grandpa. So if it's comfortable, call me Gerard for the time being. But I'd prefer grandpa."
"Jewel, what about you?"
Jewel stood up and nodded "I'm so sorry" she whispered
Gerard hugged her and rubbed circles on her back. Jewel would have jumped to hear a growl if she hadn't smelled Derek's sent. She looked at the woods and found him, trying to give her a comforting smile. She returned him a small smile and turned her focus back to her grandfather
At night
"So he just practically declared a war against all of your kind?" Jewel asked, keeping clothes in her luggage bag.
"He cut the omega in half and announced that he'll just kill each and every one of our kind" Derek told her, leaning against the window of her room.
She snorted and shook her head before walking to her wardrobe and pulling out another pair of clothes
"You know, sometimes I can't help but feel helpful that you are not a werewolf" Derek told her
"Well, surprisingly it doesn't make me feel grateful. If you read the historical records, the number of beings killed in witch hunts is multiple times the ones killed in werewolf hunts. You only have a family after you. Me, if people found out will have complete countries after me, starting with my own for exposing myself to the mundane side"
"So, how long will you be gone?"
"2 weeks tops"
"I already started missing you" he whined
"Just look at this. A big bad alpha whining for a huntress who is also a witch" she chuckled
"Well this huntress who is also a witch is my girlfriend" he walked to her and kissed he on the lips "Be safe"
"You sure will be okay?" Chris asked
"Yeah. I just need some break. I'm sorry for not taking Allison with me"
"no it's alright. She needs to be here with Gerard"
Jewel nodded and hugged her dad one last time before getting out of the car and heading to the airport.
Aish